U.S. inflation vs the world.

[Hortensis]

6. Well, how much debt are you struggling under from battling Covid infection?

Nothing, like almost everyone who had to be treated?

Our unemployment rate is 3.6%, roughly 2 open jobs for each person looking. In many other nations people's jobs disappeared some time after spring 2020, haven't returned, and show no sign of returning. In this one, wage hikes are a major contributor to our inflation rate.

Over 70% of Americans say they're doing fine, though. (Not including complain-y types who are also doing okay.)

Not SO dismal on expanding the picture just a bit. Notably on realizing that inflation and food and petro shortages are all interconnected global problems, not just ours, and that billions of people in nations with lower rates are hurting bad.

Oh, speaking of: how's the hunger going in your house? Any plans for where to go if famine hits your region?

Inflation's not good, stagflation makes me cringe, remembering years of it in the 1970s, but...we're privileged and it's not accidental.