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1 posted on 01/15/2014 2:45:20 PM PST by grimalkin
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Food, ammo and fuel.


2 posted on 01/15/2014 2:47:08 PM PST by Paladin2
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A third grader could have written this article?


3 posted on 01/15/2014 2:49:31 PM PST by america-rules
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Author hasn’t priced building materials lately.


5 posted on 01/15/2014 2:53:31 PM PST by pingman (In the Land of the Perpetually Outraged, truth is the enemy.)
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There’s inflation. But jobs have gone to hell, so there is less money available to buy things, which keeps prices lower than the feds are trying to make them.


6 posted on 01/15/2014 2:55:10 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: grimalkin
Number 3: Stagflation

http://www.gallup.com/poll/166850/americans-worse-off-financially-year-ago.aspx

7 posted on 01/15/2014 2:57:14 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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The article doesn’t discuss velocity of money. As in businesses and peoples hoarding cash or not spending because of the certainty that this isn’t going to end well. The only ‘Uncertainty’ is what the end will look like. Just mho.
I’m doing my part to keep prices as low as possible.


9 posted on 01/15/2014 2:59:36 PM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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It's in food, fuel and everything else people call "necessities".

Just because the imperial federal government calls no or minimal inflation does not mean anything.

They would tell you the sun is shining, it's warm and everything is good while they're getting drowned in rain and buried in snow.

10 posted on 01/15/2014 3:30:36 PM PST by elkfersupper
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Where is inflation? Just go to the supermarket. A carton of eggs that cost 2.00 last October now costs 3.50. Last October 100.00 worth of groceries could feed a family of three for a week. Today it will feed a family if three for about four days, unless you want to live on beans & rice. Just look at what happened to the price of peanut butter in just a short while. If you haven’t stocked up by now, then it’s too late.


15 posted on 01/15/2014 3:57:12 PM PST by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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Our inflation numbers are like the funhouse numbers we get for employment.

As an example, if your sugar costs the same as it did four years ago, is it the same price? Well, no. If you haven’t noticed, your 5 pound bag of sugar now weighs 4 POUNDS, a 20% difference. Only now that same short weight 4 pounder is also going up on ITS shelf price.

Ice cream no longer comes in a standard half-gallon container, and your peanut butter jars and cereal boxes have also shrunk. I only mention these because they are some of the more commonly purchased items.

So someone has been playing hide-the-ball with REAL inflation figures, and its been going on right in front of us. I just wonder at what point this disguised real inflation begins to affect interest rates.


19 posted on 01/15/2014 4:12:02 PM PST by stisidore (MM, let's see here)
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To the degree that the new money does get out into the economy, it will flow in different directions and have different effects. If it reaches the average consumer, it will produce consumer price inflation.

I don't understand this statement. I'm an average schmuck and my salary probably increases each year maybe 2-3% depending on bonus results. So I don't see that this "new money" flowed to me.

20 posted on 01/15/2014 4:20:37 PM PST by plain talk
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Bfl


24 posted on 01/15/2014 4:45:55 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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See stocks. The prices go up on things people buy with that printed money. Not so much anything else when the money is socked away in investments and people aren’t spending their “wealth”.


25 posted on 01/16/2014 4:50:14 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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This has to be satire. Does this person not shop. Gasoline is still 100% higher than Obama was immaculated. Formerly 1 pound bags of items are now 12 ounces. Granola bars that once had six per box are now 5. Obamacare increased healthcare costs 100%. My gas and electricity rates just went up. I can go on and on about real world inflation. Not the BS federal statisticians make up.


26 posted on 01/16/2014 6:49:53 AM PST by Organic Panic
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And keep in mind that it was derivatives exposure that brought Lehman Brothers down in 2008.

No it wasn't.

27 posted on 01/28/2014 5:03:04 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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