That expansion drove asset prices and everyday costs higher.
Homes food insurance and borrowing costs all reset up.
30 year mortgage rates sit around 6.7 percent near the 7 percent level.
One post notes Biden era saw high illegal immigration numbers around 11 million encounters.
AI projected to displace about 15 million US jobs over time per Goldman Sachs.
Everyone keeps debating “affordability” like it’s some giant mystery…
It’s not. We printed nearly 40% more dollars in two years during COVID. Asset prices and everyday costs exploded as a direct result. Homes, food, insurance, and borrowing costs all reset higher. Mortgage… pic.twitter.com/jWbBFeTD1S
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) August 12, 2026
While everyone celebrates cooling CPI, look at the pipeline. Raw industrial commodities are turning back up.
Bloomberg's index of industrial materials and the CRB raw industrials gauge are both climbing again, the kind of cyclical upswing that shows up months before it reaches… pic.twitter.com/zb3OAh80xA
— Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 12, 2026
The Democratic Party is being taken over by socialists who openly despise America, and yet Republicans are still going to lose the midterms because Trump and the neocons dragged us into another failed Middle East war.
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 11, 2026
US Retirement Survey 1 in 3 have more credit card debt than retirement savings
Americans who currently contribute to a workplace retirement plan such as a 401(k) believe they will need $1.2 million in savings to retire comfortably, according to Schroders’ 2026 US Retirement Survey.
About half of them shouldn’t count on being able to do so. They’re actually on track to have less than $500,000 in savings at retirement — including 24% who say it’s unlikely they will have $250,000 set aside.
“Many participants know they’re falling short of their retirement savings goals, and it’s no surprise that more than 80% worry about running out of money in retirement,” Deb Boyden, head of US defined contribution at Schroders, a multinational asset management company, told Yahoo Finance.