Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It's *largely* driven by people going out to eat, the food-at-home-portion is still lower than pretty much every other year, and here's what it did the next year: 160
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026And this is what I get if you generate the trend back from 2000 instead of 2009: 010
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Median wage went up by 50% in that interval: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgr... 110
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I think just saying "most recent" deliberately hides the fact that there has been a lot that's happened in the intervening years, and that opinions in this space have swung wildly. 250
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I'm VERY far from being a Newsom fan, but for anyone who was curious about what the actual repost was: 100
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I don't see how the lack of prosecution after Jan 6 was due to popularism -- charging Trump was in fact popular (www.monmouth.edu/polling-inst...) It was just institutional timidity, which is a different thing. 3140
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026lol what is this (from starwars-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Glup_Sh...) 000
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Relative to wages? For groceries? No there was not. 120
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I think people do feel that in their real lives, but they don't feel that about the economy as a whole, because that opinion isn't driven by their own experiences. And I think you're sorely mistaken if you think previous generations had better median lifestyles than we do today. 380
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Yeah, but it also halved under Biden. There was a big drop/gain due to the CTC expansions one year and then it expiring (this was bad), but overall trends are good: 110
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 29/06/2024Yeah with the public this isn't close (SurveyUSA poll): 100
Chris Carollo @crazytalk.bsky.social · 14/02/2024It's mostly up to the patient's doctor, but there are some guidelines. www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/... Anyways, it's definitely not just "has Covid". 000