@scott@carfree.city2025-11-14 03:50:23
Didn't realize Katie Wilson identified as a socialist! Cool. https://komonews.c…
@scott@carfree.city2025-11-14 03:50:23
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-12 17:00:32
"Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WoodBurner
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-06 18:14:11
Trump Calls For Firing Fox News Booker After "Trump Hating Jerk Loser" Guest Notes Soaring Cost Of Living - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-calls-for-firing-fox-news-booker-after-trump-hating-jerk-loser-guest-notes-soaring-cost-of-living/
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-02-09 20:30:27
the BC Greens have reached a turning point.
When we signed the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord (CARGA) with the BC NDP in 2024, we did so with a clear goal: to use our leverage in the legislature to force action on some of the issues that matter most to you—housing, healthcare, climate, and the cost-of-living crisis.
Today, I am announcing that the BC Greens will not renew that agreement.
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2025-12-10 14:39:25
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-29 03:11:13
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them "irresponsible" for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (Tom Knowles/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/28/coin…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-05 19:26:37
This is absolute BS. It's gas-lighting, damn near literally.
“Canada has a problem with EV demand, not supply, he argued, adding that the gap is exacerbated by the higher upfront cost for EVs compared to gas-powered vehicles as Canadians face a cost of living crisis.”
Let us buy EVs and we'll buy them!!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/livestory/canada-national-auto-strategy-9.7075235
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-29 03:26:08
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them "irresponsible" for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (Tom Knowles/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/28/coin…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-16 12:20:34
White House Hunts for Ways to Lower the Cost of Living (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/trump-cost-of-living-prices-8e08798d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251116/p4#a251116p4
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-01-05 17:35:32
From The Maple
How did labour fare in 2025?
In many respects, last year was a mixed bag for workers and unions in Canada. Though union wage gains were relatively healthy, the overall economy continued to cool with unemployment creeping up and many workers still feeling the cost-of-living crunch.
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2025-12-28 12:15:03
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite #Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims:
“It’s a fundamental error to treat these issues as mutually exclusive – climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions. Most of the elite discourse is very bad at estimating or understanding levels of public concern, and this is a good example of this.”
#ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-18 01:03:45
Newly sworn-in Virginia Governor #Abigail #Spanberger signed
10 executive orders in her first official act at the Virginia State Capitol.
Three of the orders target
✅reducing cost-of-living expenses for Virginia families,
✅bringing down healthcare costs
✅and making it easier to build more…
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 11:20:28
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Britain is broken, in various ways. Could adopting bitcoin help it bounce back?
Renegade Investor thinks so.
Central banks printing money causes government debt and artificially low interest rates. Their monetary policy is political and done for bankers not for people.
Bitcoin monitory policy is fixed.
Lockdown during pandemic was funded by money printing, and caused a big inflation pump and government debt increase. It caused the current cost of living crisis.
Lockdown could have been impossible under a bitcoin standard.
In pounds the cost of living has gone up lots over the last decade. But in bitcoin it's gone down massively.
He thinks wealth redistribution is taking money from productive people and giving it to those who aren't increasing the country wealth. Here I disagree entirely. Wealth is reality being taken from the workers and given to the capital owners. We are redistributing wealth towards the rich currently. Taking the wealth created by workers to give to idle owners.
I also wonder, would limited government power be good? Did the lockdown save lives? Would it do do under a worse pandemic? Limited government power may be double edged.
Not sure why he thinks immigration is funded by government, rather than immigrants increasing the country wealth. Seems to think bitcoin could reduce immigration, which I find unbelievable and undesirable.
This talk I disagree with quite a lot.
#bitcoin #bitfest #britain
@skington@glasgow.social2025-12-29 13:23:00
Reform have written to me. Wow, what a push poll. “Rising crime”, “mass immigration” (not devolved), but no mention of transport, let alone the environment (unless that’s what they mean by high energy prices).
Also, why only one set of choices for who I’m voting for? Have Reform forgotten that in a Scottish election you have two votes (constituency and list)?
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-26 19:51:56
I should pay closer attention I know, but CBC tells me Carney is upping my gst rebate 25% because the cost of living has doubled or more yet my federal pensions say things are only 2% more expensive this year.
Somewhere there must be an economic equation to resolve these two values?
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-17 05:59:36
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk2025-11-25 19:40:55
Yes, it's a higher wage bill for businesses, but it also means more money for people to spend, which means more revenue for those same businesses. And less poverty means a lower benefits bill for the government.
BBC News - Minimum wage to rise again from April to £12.71 for over-21s - BBC News
https://www.bbc.c…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-17 09:55:37
The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 18:36:13
Democrats focused on the improving metrics
and lost voters who were drowning in the day to day reality.
Trump is doing something even worse.
He is telling people their suffering does not exist at all.
That is not optimism.
That is contempt.
And contempt has a way of boomeranging in politics.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-12-20 05:56:26
Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’ | Canada | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/19/montreal-grocery-store-santas-elves-robbery
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-23 12:50:43
Trump looks left on cost of living concerns (Alex Gangitano/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/trump-democrats-warren-schumer-00742515
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p15#a260123p15
@lilmikesf@c.im2026-01-03 20:42:52
While #Drumpf instigates #WarForOil vs #Venezuela from his #GOP bully pulpit , the US
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 18:33:58
The recent election results proved something important.
Voters responded to candidates who spoke directly to economic pain.
When Democrats leaned into economic populism, they won.
They won by acknowledging reality, not sugarcoating it.
They won because they talked like people who know what a grocery bill feels like in 2025.
The mandate was clear:
tell the truth about the economy and fight for people who are getting squeezed.
And now comes Trump,…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-30 14:00:52