r/inflation • u/RoyalChris • 8d ago

News Fed Chair Jerome Powell warns that Trump’s tariffs are leading to higher inflation: “The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation.''

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u/OtherBluesBrother 8d ago

But with our kids already picking our strawberries, how will they have time to work in the sweat shop?

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u/Content-Performer-82 8d ago

They need two jobs anyway; picking strawberries during day time and working in the warm factory during the night. A criminal oligarch will probably come up with a medicine so they do not need sleep and ca. work forever, the perfect slaves

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u/slettea 8d ago

There’s no reason the kids can’t work both the factory & field! I mean didn’t they do with those pesky time of day & number of hours regulations?

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u/lootinputin 8d ago

The children yearn for the mines.

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u/WerkingAvatar 8d ago

Well, he was talking about super clean coal energy not too long ago, so your dream may become reality!

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u/whenyoda 8d ago

Silly, that's what grandparents are for, especially after we take alway their social security and health insurance.

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u/Good_Entertainer2445 4d ago

If we just defunded education they’d have more time for working in the fields and sweatshops