That's the true intellectual dishonesty, pretending it would have been any different. Fairly certain we would be exactly where we are now. There was no magic wand that could have been waived around to somehow make the outcome drastically different from the majority of the rest of the countries. Small outliers exist but they are not the USA.
No. See below.
Inflation affected every country during covid
Saying it was just an American problem makes you sound ignorant and dumb.
That's explicitly not what I said. I said some inflation was inevitable, but that the policies of the Biden/Harris administration
exacerbated it. Maybe you should look that word up in the dictionary...

Source:
https://datatrack.trendforce.com/blog/content/18473/inflation-affects-living-costs and references therein.
So prices surged more drastically in the US than in the eurozone or Japan. For the US/EU comparison, see also this chart:

The only time inflation
rates in the eurozone surpassed those in the US was from February 2022 until late 2023, i.e. the time when the economic fallout from the Ukraine war (loss of access to Russian gas etc.) obviously hit Europe a lot harder than the US. That the absolute CPI level in the US stayed ahead of Europe throughout this entire timeframe in spite of Europe going through a major withdrawal is a fucking indictment of the US economic policy under Biden.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 25 2025 11:24am