Roger Stone Just Named the People Who Engineered Americans’ Financial Pain

Your grocery bill didn't explode by accident.

Roger Stone published a blistering takedown this week making the case that what happened to the American middle class under Biden wasn't bad luck – it was a calculated decision made by people who never face consequences for it.

And he named names.

The Verdict on Biden's Inflation

Stone's argument is simple and damning: inflation is not an act of God.

It is engineered by specific people using specific levers of power, and those people made deliberate choices that put the squeeze on ordinary Americans while protecting themselves.

The numbers back him up completely.

Under Biden, the cost of basic necessities jumped 20 percent. Inflation outpaced wages for 26 straight months. The monthly mortgage payment on a median-priced new home shot up 89 percent. Credit card debt crossed $1 trillion and stayed there for five straight quarters.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith confirmed the damage in his own accounting: the average American family needed $13,717 more per year just to buy the same goods they bought when Biden took office.

That's not a statistic. That's a second job that never ends.

Stone draws the Carter comparison with precision. Jimmy Carter had the worst inflation record of any modern president, and Biden came close enough to earn the comparison. Heritage Foundation analysts put the numbers side by side: over Biden's four years, prices rose roughly 20 percent. Under Trump's first term, the same measure rose 8 percent.

The Architects Stone Is Calling Out

This is where Stone goes further than most.

He doesn't stop at Biden. He points the finger at Federal Reserve mandarins who treat inflation as a mysterious phenomenon rather than the predictable consequence of printing money. He points at bureaucrats who strangled American energy production in the name of ideology, driving costs through every sector of the economy.

And he points directly at Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum.

Schwab, the WEF's founder and longtime executive chairman, has spoken openly about reshaping humanity and dismissed national sovereignty as an antiquated inconvenience. His organization's infamous prediction – that by 2030 ordinary people will own nothing – wasn't buried in a footnote. It was published on the WEF's own platform and celebrated by the same globalist elites who fly to Davos every year to design a future ordinary people weren't consulted about.

Stone's conclusion is blunt: a middle class stripped of savings, priced out of homes, buried in debt, and dependent on government isn't a policy failure. It's the policy working as intended by the people who built it.

What This Means for America

When a family can't save because inflation is eating every dollar, they become dependent. When dependency grows, self-reliance dies. And a population in perpetual financial distress is easier to control.

That's not speculation. That's history repeating.

The Washington Times documented the Carter parallel in detail: the same cocktail of runaway spending, energy restrictions, and ideological governance that wrecked American families in the 1970s was served again under Biden. Carter's stagflation drove mortgage rates to 17 percent and left a generation flinching at gas prices. Biden's version drove mortgage costs up 89 percent and wiped out pandemic savings entirely.

Reagan's answer was energy independence, deregulation, and production over plunder. Heritage analysts confirmed the formula works: when Carter raised taxes, piled on regulation, and choked energy, inflation went above 10 percent. When Reagan reversed all three, it fell by half.

Stone's indictment lands with a simple question: what does it say about a government that can find trillions for foreign wars but can't stabilize grocery prices for its own citizens?

The middle class built this country. It deserves better than to be slowly bled dry by people who are already drawing up what comes next.

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Sources:

• Roger Stone, "The Engineered Impoverishment of the American Middle Class," StoneZone, February 16, 2026.
• Jason Smith, "The Biden-Harris Economic Record is Sticker Shock," House Ways and Means Committee, September 11, 2024.
• House Budget Committee, "Fact Check: Setting the Record Straight on Bidenomics," U.S. House Budget Committee, 2023.
• Stephen Moore, "Trump's Record Far Superior to Biden's on Debt and Inflation," Heritage Foundation, 2024.
• J.T. Young, "Biden is Out-Cartering Carter's Failed Economy," The Hill, January 26, 2024.
• Monica Showalter, "Is Biden Taking U.S. Economy Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter?" Washington Times, May 8, 2024.
• Larry Alex Taunton, "Klaus Schwab, The World Economic Forum, and The New Fascism," The Daily Wire, September 29, 2022.