Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

some republicans would probably celebrate and see such an event as punishment for them liberals and proof that end of days has arrived

Has Trump being criticized for anything yet?

12 years of same old tired shite….no new material

We’re onto “VP Kamala” now? It’s technically true, she is “VP” but I’m fascinated with the hangups the MAGAs have something so simple as her name. “Kamala”, “Harris”, “the Dem’s Presidential nominee”, all pretty normal stuff for most people. But we have to go into the weird Trumpism of somehow twisting a person’s name…and alas for them it isn’t really working this time.

You’d have to wonder what would happen in MAGAworld if her name changed to: Kamala Harris, 47th President of the United States.

lost me Im not american , I gather she made waves pumping price controls of which Im aware, Bezos would be conflicted as he owns both a large supermarket chain and the WP and clearly could see problems with this , any credible economist knows price controls lead to failure and shortages

Ill wait for her full sit down interview on her proposals and then catch the summary and reaction , that would make me more informed than 95% of US voters or she should come out and condemn price controls as Socialism which she isnt for if that is the case

In California they either restricted price rises or profits of insurance companies, end result a lot of Insurance companies just left and caused havoc because claims were higher than premiums they could charge. Surely your example shows the market does work unless the government has planning inefficiencies and or regulation capture occurs , what wont work is creating supermarket price control but it maybe popular with the economic illiterate

I worked at Dunnes when Aldi arrived in town, and their reaction was honestly something akin to panic. They even brought in a range of items called "Dunnes Betta Valdi"(which at the time felt perilously close to copyright infringement) which were cheaper than cheap. I remember one woman bringing back a box of corn flakes from the Betta Valdi range which she said she couldn't eat, so she put them out for the birds and the birds wouldn't eat them either.

Aldi/Lidl's model works by selling quality items at low prices with a low margin thanks to economies of scale. Dunnes answer was to sell really cheap items that were cheap for a reason - no-one wanted to buy them in the first place.

Thats good though, better than some government wonk trying to get headlines by coming out with a regulation price for a bunch of items , you will end up with a bunch of intended-unintended consequences

Yeah - but in fairness to Dunne’s stores - Aldi and Lidl are continent wide operations so they have huge heft behind them to develop own brand quality products.

Dunne’s are Irish based and unlikely to expand any time soon.

im old enough to remember that supermarkets were limited in size "by the government" here, same as all the taxi shortages and extreme values of ""taxi plates" , the default is that price control is covering up for some other inefficiency