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I think it's the opposite. These were announced 9 months ago and none of the doomsday predictions have come to pass. There's been major impact to some things but for the most part the economy has hummed along without a blip. Certainly not the everything in Walmart is going to get 34% prognostications that some were making:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561253



What are you saying? "None of the doomsday predictions have come to pass." -> nothing is wrong and the USA is fine

"There's been major impact to some things" -> so bad things have happened

"but for the most part the economy has hummed along without a blip." -> so despite bad things happening, just plug your ears and sing loudly?

As for prices in Walmart, they HAVE gone up. Several companies have had press releases stating they need to increase prices because of tariffs:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/trump-tariffs-here-are-the-r...

"Retailers like Costco and Best Buy said they have already raised some prices, while Walmart, Target and Macy's plan to follow suit"

I'll be the first to say that given the circumstances our underlying economy and people have held up better than complete collapse. But you can't pretend this is not happening.


I could agree that it wasn't the doomsday event some people said it would be, still people are now struggling for food.. so well.

Also, i was hinting at the fact that issue is larger than economics.


Prices are wild right now. Meat has almost never been at $9-10/lb. Just a few years ago they were at $3-4/lb


Eggs were the same way. Now they are at their lowest point since 2019 and cost 5% of what they peaked at. There's an inherent volatility in food prices that can't really be helped.


Have you checked the USD value versus other currencies? It's not going well


For the Euro, lower than last year, higher than 2021, lower than 2017, higher than 2014, much higher than 2008...


Without a blip?! Have a look at the SP500 in Euros.




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