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> I don't see political instability ever being much of a problem.

Constantly in the political sphere are candidates promising to forgive tuition debt because its so crazy, and politicians promising the government will cover healthcare because its so crazy.

We're not at political instability, but I think we're crossed over into "politicians have to solve this not because its a governments responsibility, but because people can't solve it so they're asking politicians" which is often the first step to instability.

IIRC 15% for Campbells Tomato Soup.

https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-price...

Eyeballing the values on the graph, it looks like the price increase is around 4% YoY between 2000 and 2020, from ~0.40$ to 0.85$. If it were 15%, it would have reached 6.50$ in 2020.

My mistake, I linked the wrong thing. Here is the right one https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-price... .

Well that would be a different story if he did succeed at stealing the election on Jan 6 while having his supporters destroying the Capitol.

The social unrest would have been quite something.