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Our consumer prices have skyrocketed in conjunction with smaller products, thus we are Europeanized.

The democrats could not openly support NAFTA, but buy out GM and give the Teachers a promise of new students forever in their lifetimes, and NAFTA morphs into Immigration... What devious and delicious plan. All served up by Barack.

A very good morning to you! Yesterday's fractional stock uptick in light volume may have seemed nice but it was an underachiever; today's futures right now have 'em crashing -0.91%. Similar pattern for metals w/ gold'n'silver now at $1,159.70 and $15.73 and seen falling again today -1.11%. So much for 'market under pressure' being a buying opp., we got a great day for profit taking. Econ announcements begin trickling out today w/ JOLTS - Job Openings and Wholesale Inventories. And--

Get ready for a much bigger oil shock The biggest trade in the markets right now is the brutal battle being fought in the oil market.
Why Stock Markets Are Spooked By Job Gains - Anthony Mirhaydari, TFT
Global stocks overshadowed by US interest rate outlook
Dollar at 12-year peak vs euro, emerging markets spooked
Major Credit Agencies Altering Procedures to Improve Credit Score Consolidate Times - 2 hours ago Equifax, Experian and TransUnion have decided to alter credit cards record processes. The three big credit reporting agencies will observe new guidelines that will allow them to easily manage disputes.
China's Feb inflation at 1.4% Sin Chew Jit Poh - 3 hours ago BEIJING, March 10 (Bernama) -- China's inflation rose 1.4 per cent year-on-year in February, recovering from a five-year-low of 0.8 per cent growth in January, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures.

...consumer prices have skyrocketed...

A lot of folks are posting that understanding on these threads and I'm having a hard time seeing enough of an actual general increase in prices of goods'n'services to justify the idea. We do hear folks saying that the dollar shows hyper inflation, but in the meantime I've got to work in markets being hit time to time by deflation.

...with smaller products...

Marketing does change as it should, but you and I can simply talk prices on sizes that don't change --like how big's a gallon or how long a day is.

...NAFTA morphs into Immigration...

That may be saying more about the 'morpher' than whatever is getting morphed. For some reason or other the U.S. has gotten taken over by folks who care more about commemorating the anniversary of one person dying in 1965 for civil rights in Selma than remembering the 680,000 who died in 1865 in Gettysburg for the survival of the nation.