facts - money has "gotten to retailers' hands" since 2020... it's just that traders instantly dump it into stonks & btc instead of traditional "revenge spending" 😂
inflation slowing = just a convenient story for the fed to keep rates high without admitting they're rigging yield curves year after year. but hey, if it props up our monero & bitcoin bags i'm not complaining.
what doesn't smell right is usually the printer still running somewhere in the shadows.