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https://www.vox.com/the-goods/...on-explained-by-eggs
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Minor Deity![]() |
You can explain anything any way. But groceries are up around 50%.
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Really? 50%? For the stuff we buy, prices are up some, but there's no way we're paying 50% more....
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There used to be an economics professor at Santa Fe Community College that taught the entire introductory econ course in terms of beer. College freshmen loved it.
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Everyone gets some share of the blame here, and, to be fair, some of it was unavoidable as a result of the pandemic (and, as hard as tfg might try to forget, he signed two COVID relief packages that were in aggregate, I think, 60% larger than the one Biden subsequently signed. And he signed a huge tax cut, too. But I digress.) ![]() We have our very own in-house economics professor who can explain things far better than I can, but the only surprise to me is that the combination of large spending and tax cuts didn't result in inflation sooner. | |||
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Yeah, it was coming regardless. I would suggest that the first two packages were needed but the third one was not, but I understand how it came to be. It's a group effort. To solely blame Biden is just flat wrong.
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I went grocery shopping today and bought prepper gas for the truck. Beef hasn’t gone up much, and in fact may be cheaper than it was two weeks ago. Everything else seemed to be up about 10% except shallots, which were priced at a whopping $6.99/lb.! Yikes! And the fine Canadian tomatoes are gone, replaced by the red croquet balls from Mexico we got in CA. One store had red croquet balls grown in Ohio. ![]()
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Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana ![]() |
I propose a new term for what we're seeing right now: Putinflation. Remember... you heard it here first.
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I’m stealing this! ![]()
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Has Achieved Nirvana![]() |
You need to find a new place to buy shallots. They were $2.99 a pound (same as always) last week at my local Kroger-owned Mariano's....
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Something like 80% of the dollars in existence were (virtually) printed in the last 24 months. Most of that happened in 2020. Surely that’s a big part of what’s going on.
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Ugh. Your predictions? I already set up a cash hoard and filled up on gas.
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