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uponit7771

(92,576 posts) Sun Feb 16, 2025, 12:38 AM Feb 16

Largest Drop in US Retail Sales In 2 Years [View all]

Remember people, the inflation rate went **UP** .5% for Jan at the same time the consumer spending fell 1%

If February shows ANYTHING close to Jan we're proper fucked ... look at the comments in the vid ... people are waking up and not spending

People are going out with friends and family to non corp bars etc ... Some Florida Uber drivers are reporting Covid like vacancy in travel (anecdote)

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Largest Drop in US Retail Sales In 2 Years [View all] uponit7771 Feb 16 OP

The boycotts haven't even started. Baitball Blogger Feb 16 #1

RIGHT !!! and neither have the 10% tariff on Chinese imports. We have another 2 weeks of M$M telling people are losing uponit7771 Feb 16 #2

Companies are laying off all around me Johonny Feb 16 #3

All of the research and construction in limbo due to the idiot's chaos newdeal2 Feb 16 #5

Boycotts have started, and they're impacting the wrong people pinkstarburst Feb 16 #43

Daily tally of economic disasters, in Economy Forum usonian Feb 16 #4

Thx, didn't know this forum existed .. uponit7771 Feb 16 #7

I also posted about the planned boycott of sales on Feb 28. usonian Feb 16 #10

Sad...not sad....the gqp and their oligarch friends need to brought to their knees. PortTack Feb 16 #6

And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. n/t elocs Feb 16 #32

And Elon Musk is singlehandedly adding tens of thousands of government employees to the unemployment roll dalton99a Feb 16 #8

They won't be counted Demobrat Feb 16 #14

It will Rebl2 Feb 16 #21

Oh it will definitely be felt and maybe even reported on locally. Demobrat Feb 16 #23

We have a Rebl2 Feb 16 #35

Local layoffs get reported here too. Silicone valley Demobrat Feb 16 #37

Probably not Rebl2 Feb 16 #42

Ketamine is bdamomma Feb 16 #44

Inflation was up due to companies and individuals stocking up before the tariffs hit. roamer65 Feb 16 #9

Even with TFGs 10% China tariffs? They were announced beginning of Feb, they haven't really kicked in or has ... uponit7771 Feb 16 #12

What is driving deflation in these countries? Strelnikov_ Feb 16 #39

Please cite your source re: businesses stocking up on inventory in advance of expected tariffs. W_HAMILTON Feb 16 #41

I know we are cutting back. Just buying the necessities. A Brand New World Feb 16 #11

A lot of us have cut back. I won't spend money in this tRUMP admin. No way. I'm not going to support this POS SWBTATTReg Feb 16 #17

Will MAGA Revolt? Baron2024 Feb 16 #13

Maga is stage left Feb 16 #15

We Need More Laughs Baron2024 Feb 16 #16

When The Economy Craters MissouriDem47 Feb 16 #18

Probably Baron2024 Feb 16 #19

The dismantling of public education and the $$$ put into charter schools and homeschooling AZJonnie Feb 16 #36

If Enron telling the to screw their own faces didn't separate them nothing will uponit7771 Feb 16 #20

The MAGA is a simple being. It will take more. Ken Mosul Feb 16 #22

They will never hold Trump accountable Demobrat Feb 16 #24

i made several major purchases before drumpf was sworn is Takket Feb 16 #25

Same here brought a new refrigerator and a spare tv for when my older ones dies kimbutgar Feb 16 #33

Recessions usually bring inflation down. Maybe laying all this people off was his strategy to reduce inflation surfered Feb 16 #26

Americans are starting to only buy... Lovie777 Feb 16 #27

My birthday is next week..mine is the first for the year and my friends and I usually go out for lunch Deuxcents Feb 16 #28

I already told the Girl Scouts I won't be buying any cookies MichMan Feb 16 #31

Welcome to another round of the repuke recession games sakabatou Feb 16 #29

I think a lot of people may have counted on Trump "halving prices." yardwork Feb 16 #30

Another factor at work Danascot Feb 16 #34

And all of those newly unemployed Feds will have even less money to spend. alarimer Feb 16 #38

Went shopping at Costco yesterday... ProudMNDemocrat Feb 16 #40