These weren't the May flowers I was expecting from those April showers.
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Why would Joe Biden do this?
To thank Obama of course
I bet we can use AI to make those profits go even higher... Er, uh. Surge Pricing?
And those prices don't ever go down
In my part of the world (eastern USA), some do. Chocolate and coffee prices, for example, have backed off their all time highs. For coffee, it's come down a lot, presumably after the tariffs were invalidated.
BUT WHAT IS THE DOW AT?!?!
Jumped more in April than they did in four years, so far…
New that will cause the stock market to rally, for some reason
Fresh vegetables are over 44% more expensive today than they were three months ago, on an annualized basis.
This is a terrible way to phrase this. It's actually just wrong. Vegetables aren't 44% more expensive than 3 months ago.
It's saying they've increased 9 or 10 percent over 3 months. There's 12 months in a year (annualized), which if that rate continues for a year that'd then be 40-50 percent annualized.
I know what they were trying to say. That's not what they said, though.
Saying something is x% more expensive than y period of time ago (if you multiple it by a different number to pretend it's a much longer period) is just nonsense, because in the end it is not that much more expensive over the defined period.