{"id":23067,"date":"2026-09-14T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23067"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:23:51","slug":"the-rate-hikes-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23067","title":{"rendered":"The Rate Hikes Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to the federal debt and deficit, the American voting public are children who want: candy, sugar soda, to stay up all night, and to skip school, and their politicians tell them: Yes. The politicians who have said they would prioritize debt and deficit who then got into office, didn&#8217;t fulfill those promises. And when we do reduce parts of spending, we do it on those who most need the government spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">15 to 30 percent of grocery costs are diesel fuel. Groceries are moved with vehicles using diesel fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of the Biden administration, the US was approaching a full soft landing, but Trump ruined it with government spending, tariffs, war, and strict immigration policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Iphone isn&#8217;t a tech product, it&#8217;s a luxury product. Owning an Apple means you should reproduce, owning an Android means your DNA should not move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rate Hikes Are Coming\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5Lop3uryS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the federal debt and deficit, the American voting public are children who want: candy, sugar soda, to stay up all night, and to skip school, and their politicians tell them: Yes. The politicians who have said they would prioritize debt and deficit who then got into office, didn&#8217;t fulfill those promises. And when we do reduce parts of spending, we do it on those who most need the government spending. <\/p>\n<p>15 to 30 percent of grocery costs are diesel fuel. Groceries are moved with vehicles using diesel fuel. <\/p>\n<p>By the end of the Biden administration, the US was approaching a full soft landing, but Trump ruined it with government spending, tariffs, war, and strict immigration policies. <\/p>\n<p>An Iphone isn&#8217;t a tech product, it&#8217;s a luxury product. Owning an Apple means you should reproduce, owning an Android means your DNA should not move on. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z5Lop3uryS0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[764,375,7,278,221,217,165,725,1529,1316,780,568,1407,1005,170],"class_list":["post-23067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-apple","tag-biden","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-grocery-stores","tag-inflation","tag-joe-biden","tag-phone","tag-prices","tag-technology","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23068,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions\/23068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}