[Friedduck]

The dems failed at messaging, as they have forever. Both parties have abdicated their role enforcing antitrust regs (esp as it relates to the food industry).

Additionally mis-handling COVID and implementing a 25% tariff on some commodities had a massive impact on prices.

Then there’s just the evolution of some markets: PE buying housing inventory + short-term rentals + Rental yield-management (thinly-veiled collusion on pricing) have transformed the housing market.

The biggest impacts: consolidation and a deregulation mandate. Companies can do whatever the hell they want.