tmyakal

Well, yes. Businesses are run as dictatorships, not democracies. This is one of the reasons why no one who would “run a country like it’s a business” should be elected to public office.

I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we’re only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.

I’m wondering why I even need a smartphone at this point. I’m tempted to go back to a flip phone.

Most companies have been taking it on the chin for now: eating the cost of the tariffs and taking a reduced profit to maintain prices and help foster consumer confidence while they wait and see how all the tariff negotiations actually play out.

With regards to the original question, inflation is measured across all consumer purchasing. So prices on goods (groceries, cars, computing hardware, etc) can increase significantly, but if the price on services (Netflix, restaurants, laundromats, etc) stays relatively flat, inflation ends up looking better than it feels.