Everything Costs More and Americans Are Blaming Trump

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The latest polls show what you already feel in your wallet—six in ten Americans blame Trump’s administration for their financial struggles, and eight in ten are worried about rising tariffs.
In this episode of Watchdog on Wall Street, Chris breaks down:
The grocery receipt that proves inflation isn’t over—it's accelerating
Why “prices are going down” is gaslighting nonsense
How both government and corporate interests are making it worse for working families
Why it’s time to deal with this mess now
Real Americans are hurting. The question is—who’s finally going to do something about it?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, that high cost of living that you're told doesn't
exist is not happening because prices are down now, it's
starting to sync. In six out of ten Americans are
faulting the president for financial struggles. In eight out of
ten worry about tariff's impact. Americans are struggling financially, grappling

(00:42):
with debt and the rising cost of living, and are
blaming the Trump administration corporate interests for worsening economic outlooks
for worsening for working families, according to a new pole
and there'd be a lot of polls that are like that, No,
is this all on Donald Trump? No, it's not. No,
it's not. But it hasn't been handled properly. I'm seeinging
more and more of this. And again, we've been talking

(01:05):
about this for a very long period of time, and
anybody who claims claims to you know, or try to
say that, No, No, I know for a fact, inflation's
going down, prices are going down. I said, okay, show
me your bills. I want to see your bills. I
want you to show I want you to prove to

(01:26):
me that your groceries this month have gone down because
they haven't. Seeing more and more of this out there,
people complaining. My husband and I were talking last night
about how a twelve pack of drinks is nine bucks
now and how when twenty twenty I used to buy
them for four for ten. I decided to go back

(01:48):
into my Walmart app and see what I was paying
for a random grocery order in January twenty twenty, I
paid seventy dollars and twenty cents for thirty items. I
added all of them to the cart again and repurchase
them today. Today those thirty items were one hundred and
sixty five dollars and forty two cents. That's a ninety

(02:10):
five dollars twenty two cent price increase in four year time,
one hundred and thirty five point six percent inflation percentage.
We can't go on living like this, No, you can't again.
It's terring us part and it needs to be dealt

(02:32):
with sooner rather than later. Watchdog on Wall Street Dot
com