Not only does your own graph show inflation remaining higher than 2019, but you've again failed to remember that when inflation goes down, prices STILL GO UP.
Economists are the dumbest people alive, istg
Monthly cost of a $350,000 mortgage loan at today's average mortgage rate: $2500
Monthly cost of my $500,000+ mortgage loan at average 2021 mortgage rates: $2200
Housing prices ain't never recovering
Now if only there were consistent deflation over the course of several years to bring minimum wage buying power back in line with what it was in the 1960s.
All the job ads are fake and actual job hunting is in deep recession but you're too privileged to know anything about real work and too old to understand cyberscams so you're incapable of understanding the economy that human beings actually experience
ah good. it's only housing costs.
luckily we've not run out of greenbelts to build on
and there's no shortage of multifamily zoned land in cities
and interest rates are still incredibly low
and construction labor costs are not increasing
and we have funds for abundant social housing
and
I see that and understand it. Yet, I go to the grocery store and holy hell, $5 for some half and half?? So I think that's the inflation story that matters to voters.
