Guachi
@guachi
I like cycling and US policy/public policy. It's great because there is zero overlap and makes for a very interesting feed. Great to see so many of you move here from Twitter! Keep Bluesky great.
Here's a chart normalized to 100 in 1979 showing mortgage payments to wages using 75th %ile wages and median home prices. Lower is better. As you can see the Great Recession and the aftermath was REALLY cheap. Comparing to then is just bad faith.
Good idea! Here are some charts comparing nominal median wages to the CPI for food at home, clothing, and rent. Higher is better. Clothing is a lot cheaper. Food has gotten cheaper over the last 10 years or so. Housing is mostly flat.
Poor Jonas! An excuse for me to show the day I got to ride bikes with Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner back in 2024.
I think I'm capable of understanding most economic indicators and can figure out if the economy is good or not. The Economist had a cover article right before the election about how great the US economy was. Were they wrong? Nope.
Couldn't give these two up for adoption and now they stare at me every day like they're starving and about to die.
Reminds me a bit of the Pope. Knows how to see and be seen. Here's a picture from last year's Giro d'Italia as it passed through Rome on the final stage. A cyclist stopped in the middle of the race to do what he wasn't supposed to do - meet the Pope. Pope shook his hand (of course).
If that was all it might be easy to bypass. This is just from today. "Rich Jews control Collins".
The only reference in the housing section is to families and the family archetype matrix.
That's paywalled. You can also see at the link that credit card debt set record highs in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 (GREAT RECESSION), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (COVID), 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLAC...
It's higher now. The % without credit card debt (that is, paid off every month) has increased since 2022 and increased almost every year since 2015.
A picture of the Seattle Seahawks QB. After the huge player number, the biggest thing is the Seahawk on the helmet. There's also a small "NFL" on the chest and a small Nike swoosh on the shoulder.
Which corporations are plastered on the jersey in a size larger than the team name or mascot image? None. Here's the UAE cycling jersey. It's not much different than the soccer jersey, just with more sponsors.
Walking around in a jersey with the words EMIRATES plastered on it in a huge font is shilling for UAE. It's why UAE bought the team. I mean, just look at the jersey. The team is UAE.
Your own chart tells us that people thought the economy sucked in 2023. Here's another chart. 2nd worst economy of the last 9 years.
Here's my crude Excel chart of the underlying data. Aside from the blip up and then back down in 2021/2022 the responses have been remarkably consistent. It's just a minor 1% or 2% movement. Some are a flat line.
Can you explain these charts at all? There's a huge disconnect between how people perceive their own financial situation and the economy as a whole.
It's not a ridiculous assertion. I literally posted the chart showing just that. Here it is again.
Decline in spending on food at home is not a recent phenomenon. It's been going for decades.
People's assessment of their own financial situation hasn't materially changed for 9 years.
Honest, I did not photoshop your image. This is my screenshot from the 2024 report.
I cribbed this myself from the PDF. Mine! I did my own research! It's my screenshot! You can't see the sub-categories here but they are identical to what they were in 2024, as well.