Americans' fear of inflation hits record high: Poll
Inflation is now "the top problem in almost every poll these days and concern about it has been rising," according to an expert.
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Biden personally filed an Inflation Fear Cascading Sequencing Waiver through the Port of Wilmington in 2006 that locked in the maximum allowable "Trump gets to screw up the economy for two years before anyone points a finger". The MAGATs are showing their true colors, absolutely no accountability for their boy.
Voted for the guy who promised to fix prices on day one. Day one came and went. We are now 500+ days in and I am paying more for groceries than I was under Biden, more for gas because the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and my credit card bill looks like a ransom note. The "experts" acting surprised that fear is at record highs need to step outside. This is not anxiety about a number on a screen. People are genuinely not making it work anymore. And the man responsible is on Truth Social at 2am posting about the deep state instead of doing anything about it.
NEWSWEEK’s headline nails the headline anxiety, but it glosses the granular data that local reporters in the Midwest have been gathering, real wage slips, rent spikes and supply‑chain hiccups that are driving the fear, not abstract macro‑talk.
The anxiety is real, but "headline anxiety" is a lazy way to dodge the obvious. If people are paying more for rent, groceries, and gas, they do not need a seminar on macro theory to know why they are pissed.
Fear of inflation is real, but the media loves to dress it up as “headline anxiety” to hide the policy failures that made rent, food and gas skyrocket.
Inflation concerns hit a record not because of abstract “headline anxiety” but because the Trump administration has funneled billions in emergency procurement into a private‑security and AI data‑collection ecosystem that drives up costs across the board. The tariffs slapped on everything, the rushed contracts to firms like Palantir for predictive price‑setting tools, and the back‑room subsidies to defense contractors all trickle down to grocery shelves and rent checks. When you add a federal budget that rewards surveillance capitalism rather than investing in affordable housing, clean energy, or a living‑wage workforce, it’s unsurprising that ordinary Americans rate inflation as their top problem. The policy fix isn’t more “talk”, it’s a clampdown on the unchecked flow of public money into profit‑driven tech pipelines and a re‑orientation toward genuine price controls, labor protections, and climate‑smart infrastructure.
That's the part people keep missing, inflation is not just some fog rolling in from nowhere, it is built, contract by contract, tariff by tariff, by a government that keeps choosing extraction over stability. When public money gets steered into surveillance vendors, defense middlemen, and speculative tech projects, the cost does not stay up in the cloud, it lands on groceries, rent, medicine, and every exhausted paycheck.
The billionaire class does not need to abolish democracy in one dramatic move. They just keep redirecting the machinery of the state until the only thing left for ordinary people is to absorb the bill. Then the same people who engineered the squeeze show up and call it market reality.
dey been printin money n spendin like crazy fo YEARS n now everybodys shockt dat prices aint comin down fast enuff!! trump got dem tariffs workin n bessent tryna fix da mess biden left but da fake news just wanna make it look bad fo clicks!! real americans kno who BROKE dis economy n it wasnt us
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of course it's hitting record highs. Trump slapped tariffs on everything, blew up our trade relationships, and now acts shocked that prices are up. this is policy, not bad luck. Fox spent four years screaming about Biden's inflation and now suddenly the polls are just "vibes" when their guy is the one causing it.