NBC Guest Tells Americans: Suck It Up And Dig Into Thier Savings To Cover Inflation

Simon Daily 0 1 min read

Dig into your retirement so you can pay for groceries is the “sound advice” that NBC Guest Stephanie Ruhle is telling people. Ruhle was interviewed by NBC Anchor Willie Geist and asked how much higher the prices are going to go with inflation and when will they come down?

Ruhle’s response:

“Nobody knows exactly when they’re going down, but you have to put all this in perspective. This inflation is not in isolation, and the government predicted it was going to be a challenging recovery, recovery all tied to Covid.

So it’s why you see things like that expanded child tax credit. You’ve got the families of over 60 million kids, on average, getting $430 a month. For people on fixed incomes, older people on social security, they’re getting those fixed payments adjusted next year up 5.9% for inflation.

And the dirty little secret here, while nobody likes to pay more, on average we have the money to do so. Household savings hit a record high over the pandemic. We didn’t really have anywhere to go out and spend. And as we said a moment ago, we’re expecting retail sales this holiday season to break records. For those who own their homes, the value of our homes are up.

While the stock market isn’t the economy, you have over half of American households with some investment in the markets, and the markets have hit market highs.

So we need to put all of this in perspective. This time last year when you and I were talking nobody had a vaccine. Now 200 million Americans do, and we’re seeing this push of demand and that’s pushing up pricing.”

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On average… That’s such a tough statement. So to cover for Biden killing our economy and the rise of inflation, Americans are supposed to dig into their retirement funds or savings accounts just to get by… This build-back better stuff is hard to understand, is inflation considered better by Dems now?

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