To: expat_panama
why are rates about to go up when there's no inflation?
Someone has been living with his head up his rear. No inflation? Compare the register tapes of today from those a year ago, 2 years ago, 5 years ago.
Inflation or prices increases abound.
Where prices have not risen on many products, product reduction has occurred. The size/weight has decreased while the price stayed the same.
3 posted on
08/05/2015 6:14:55 AM PDT by
TomGuy
To: TomGuy; agere_contra
Inflation or prices increases abound.We have significant inflation.
Right. No hard numbers for general prices but plenty of feeeelings. In the mean time the Fed's prime mandate is stable prices, and a rate hike on top of zilch measured general prices is (like the article says) is friggin' hard to explain.
To: TomGuy
Inflation or prices increases abound. Where prices have not risen on many products, product reduction has occurred. The size/weight has decreased while the price stayed the same.
Exactly. Things are a LOT more expensive than before. They just make up statistics to suit them, don't they?
12 posted on
08/05/2015 6:32:13 AM PDT by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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To: TomGuy
Have you bought a half gallon of Breyer’s Vanilla ice cream lately?
The price is the same but the container is no longer a half gallon size. Guess which way the container volume went - smaller or larger? See, that was easy wasn’t it.
To: TomGuy
Where prices have not risen on many products, product reduction has occurred. The size/weight has decreased while the price stayed the same. AKA "Packaging to price" - TP from COSTCO one year apart:
45 posted on
08/05/2015 3:09:07 PM PDT by
Oatka
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