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Rents around me are going down. Gas is under $3/gal here. I filled up my ICE about a week ago for ~$2.75. Lots of staple foods have dropped closer to pre-pandemic price levels but many do remain high but have seemed to stabilize.

I'm obviously only looking at a small part of the overall US, but if we're going to go by what we as individuals see the numbers I'm personally seeing largely match the trends I see from the BLS.

The right seems to be able to do it constantly. The right takes control and the white working class goes “oh the economy is so good” while they privatize the services that the working class rely on and then strip them of all their assets . The white working class doesn’t ever seem to mind then.

Great account name to go with this comment. Ministry of truth trying to tell you your dollar isn’t evaporating on a daily basis.