Inflation might make Dems lose in midterms? Let's remind them inflation is a globel problem!

[skip fox]

https://www.global-rates.com/en/economic-indicators/inflation/inflation.aspx

Inflation figure country/region type period monthly basis yearly basis
CPI Austria Austria cpi april 2022 0.276 % 7.171 %
CPI Belgium Belgium cpi april 2022 0.334 % 8.306 %
CPI Brazil Brazil cpi april 2022 1.060 % 12.132 %
CPI Canada Canada cpi april 2022 0.604 % 6.771 %
CPI Chile Chile cpi april 2022 1.395 % 10.516 %
CPI China China cpi april 2022 0.390 % 2.185 %
CPI Czech Republic Czech Republic cpi april 2022 1.793 % 14.161 %
CPI Denmark Denmark cpi april 2022 1.638 % 6.686 %
CPI Estonia Estonia cpi april 2022 3.589 % 18.880 %
CPI Finland Finland cpi april 2022 0.315 % 5.738 %
CPI France France cpi april 2022 0.434 % 4.827 %
CPI Germany Germany cpi april 2022 0.781 % 7.394 %
CPI Great Britain Great Britain cpi april 2022 2.146 % 7.790 %
CPI Greece Greece cpi april 2022 2.136 % 10.173 %
CPI Hungary Hungary cpi april 2022 1.582 % 9.401 %
CPI Iceland Iceland cpi may 2022 0.773 % 7.590 %
CPI India India cpi april 2022 1.349 % 6.328 %
CPI Indonesia Indonesia cpi may 2022 0.400 % 3.554 %
CPI Ireland Ireland cpi april 2022 0.912 % 6.963 %
CPI Israel Israel cpi april 2022 0.769 % 3.964 %
CPI Italy Italy cpi april 2022 -0.091 % 5.956 %
CPI Japan Japan cpi april 2022 0.396 % 2.422 %
CPI Luxembourg Luxembourg cpi april 2022 0.819 % 6.960 %
CPI Mexico Mexico cpi april 2022 0.541 % 7.683 %
CPI Norway Norway cpi april 2022 1.169 % 5.391 %
CPI Poland Poland cpi april 2022 2.018 % 12.330 %
CPI Portugal Portugal cpi april 2022 2.201 % 7.204 %
CPI Russia Russia cpi march 2022 7.613 % 16.698 %
CPI Slovakia Slovakia cpi april 2022 1.418 % 11.712 %
CPI Slovenia Slovenia cpi april 2022 2.563 % 6.948 %
CPI South Africa South Africa cpi april 2022 0.589 % 5.998 %
CPI South Korea South Korea cpi april 2022 0.745 % 4.775 %
CPI Spain Spain cpi april 2022 -0.178 % 8.345 %
CPI Sweden Sweden cpi april 2022 0.617 % 6.361 %
CPI Switzerland Switzerland cpi april 2022 0.367 % 2.548 %
CPI the Netherlands The Netherlands cpi april 2022 0.293 % 9.556 %
CPI Turkey Turkey cpi may 2022 2.981 % 73.496 %
CPI United States United States cpi april 2022 0.558 % 8.259 %
HICP Austria Austria hicp april 2022 0.636 % 7.146 %
HICP Belgium Belgium hicp april 2022 0.274 % 9.327 %
HICP Czech Republic Czech Republic hicp april 2022 1.814 % 13.246 %
HICP Denmark Denmark hicp april 2022 1.821 % 7.397 %
HICP Estonia Estonia hicp april 2022 4.147 % 19.128 %
HICP Eurozone Europe hicp april 2022 0.568 % 7.439 %
HICP Finland Finland hicp april 2022 0.394 % 5.791 %
HICP France France hicp april 2022 0.463 % 5.382 %
HICP Germany Germany hicp april 2022 0.689 % 7.841 %
HICP Great Britain Great Britain hicp april 2022 2.477 % 8.992 %
HICP Greece Greece hicp april 2022 1.955 % 9.142 %
HICP Hungary Hungary hicp april 2022 1.678 % 9.580 %
HICP Iceland Iceland hicp april 2022 0.943 % 5.645 %
HICP Ireland Ireland hicp april 2022 0.915 % 7.296 %
HICP Italy Italy hicp april 2022 0.359 % 6.280 %
HICP Luxembourg Luxembourg hicp april 2022 0.913 % 8.963 %
HICP Poland Poland hicp april 2022 1.776 % 11.396 %
HICP Portugal Portugal hicp april 2022 2.356 % 7.388 %
HICP Slovakia Slovakia hicp april 2022 1.353 % 10.863 %
HICP Slovenia Slovenia hicp april 2022 2.093 % 7.350 %
HICP Spain Spain hicp april 2022 -0.260 % 8.290 %
HICP Sweden Sweden hicp april 2022 0.568 % 6.609 %
HICP the Netherlands The Netherlands hicp april 2022 0.381 % 11.207 %
HICP Turkey Turkey hicp april 2022 7.256 % 69.978 %

[brooklynite]

1. But I was told (here) it was greedy US business executives...

Can you perhaps see talking at cross purposes?

Add to which: no voter will feel better that other Countries are having problems; they'll vote based on what our leaders do (or don't do) about the problem here.

[andym]

2. Actually, the voters will vote the economy independently of what the leaders here do

as outside of the Fed's monetary policy, inflation is the hands of China (supply chain defects due to Covid lock down policy) and Russia (Ukraine war associated oil sanctions boosting oil prices). US leaders can't do much about inflation. However, if inflation improves, he can eventually claim an economic miracle like Reagan, though outside of reappointing the Fed Chairman, he won't have done much, as was the case for Reagan who benefited from Carter's appointment of Paul Volcker.

[ymetca]

3. Maybe so

but it doesn't pass the bumper sticker test! Just sayin'..

Biden needs to start thinkin' outside the box, and right quick! Is he up to it? (I have my doubts.)

Time to swing for the fences, Joe. Do a slew of executive orders and tie up the Goppers in court about it. Stall. Bury them in tactical delays. Ignore judges' edicts (especially from the 5th Circuit!) 'Cause that's what the other side is doing, Joe!

He could:

Remove pot from the "list", and free every pot convict from prison. Restore their voting rights while you're at it.

Wipe out all student debt - just "mint" a "special coin" and declare them all paid in full. Repeat every time anyone graduates!

Put a special prosecutor into the SEC and start bilking the crap out of Wall Street - make them pay! Fine the ever-lovin' shit out of them for even the tiniest of infractions. Make some dough, and shovel it all into Social Security and Medicare. Declare copays illegal!

Declare Election Day a National Holiday. Dare Congress to try and stop you! There's no law that says businesses can't just go along, and most don't even give us the holidays we now have. So just trash any company as being unpatriotic if they don't give us all that day off. Start playing hardball!

Basically, start thinking like the other side and, as Nike says, Just Do It!

And, just because we have laws doesn't mean you have to enforce them all the time --you get to pick and choose, Joe! We've seen it happen, over and over and over...

Declare Mashmallow Law and dispatch the Gespacho Police!

Declare abortion a human right. Declare that the Feds will pay for any woman, anywhere, to get the reproductive care she needs. Send in the Marine choppers, if needed! States be damned! The Mommy State is back, bitches! You don't like it? Hmmm, well we'll just see which side your mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, aunts, nieces and granddaughters are on!

Call. Their. Bluff!

Go all FDR on their ass!

Yeah.. I know. We're the "sensible side", just watching it all go down in flames while we follow their sickening "laws". But law does not equal justice, and there's certainly no equal justice under the law, so why follow theirs? They've already embraced "extra-legal means" of accomplishing their goals. Who says, gosh gee, oh well, that's the law! Laws? Laws are for SUCKERS who don't know how to play the game, right? They wanna litigate, so GIVE them something to litigate! Then re-litigate their litigation. Counter-sue, bro! That's what THEY do!

'Cause that's what Joe will be going up against, next time around.

[WarGamer]

4. No one cares if it's a global problem.

They will throw a temper tantrum like Americans always do.

[FBaggins]

5. Just as it helped Trump that Covid was a global problem?

[Raine]

6. It doesn't matter what it us in other countries

it matters here when people see the cost of groceries and gas and other things cost a lot more.