Comments on: Why, what a surprise! Inflation is worse than expected

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:14:17 +0000

This is the apocalypse. the only surprise is that satans and God lets you buy anything still.

Stock up for 3 months food and water. This Final War is heating up.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:28:45 +0000

R2L,

“GB: Has a thief the right to complain when their ill gotten gains are seized from them?”

“Yes, if his gains are seized as “asset forfeiture” prior to any credible legal due process.”

Absent “credible legal due process”, “asset forfeiture” is just theft by the ‘authorities’.

The rule of law is on the precipice of extinction.

Absent the rule of law, those actually of honest intent have every right to seize ill gotten gains that have been stolen from them. However the manner in which it is achieved, theft is theft.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:03:06 +0000

Here’s a solution, cancel that earlier Democrat party trillion dollar pork fest so there’s no need to print more money. Inflation will disappear pretty fast.

I’m all in favor of canceling the pork fest, but all that money created by the Fed is still out there, and they are afraid to pull it out. Raising rates from 0.1% up to 1%, as they are talking about doing next year, won’t do a damn thing. And when they stop buying all the government debt do they think actual investors are going to accept 2% 10-year rates while inflation is 7%? All I can say is, look out below.

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:00:42 +0000

Tommy Jay: “that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon”
I wish they would clarify the economic definition of the word “inflation” to mean Strictly a monetary phenomenon, a la Milton Friedman. Then use “supply and demand” or whatever for the other forms of price increases. Separating the two forms of price increases econometrically might be tricky, but at least people would have a clearer understanding of what they were experiencing and why.

I find the diet soda index to also be a close measure for inflation, or “inflation”.

My wife grew up on a farm, and had two lambs as pets as a little girl. We have never had lamb or mutton at home, although I have had it 2 or 3 times in a restaurant setting. Not to my taste, although perhaps it depends on exactly how it is prepared and cooked?

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:48:51 +0000

GB: Has a thief the right to complain when their ill gotten gains are seized from them?
Yes, if his gains are seized as “asset forfeiture” prior to any credible legal due process.
But I gather you are postulating a situation where the “rule of law” no longer operates.

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:45:12 +0000

Art Deco: I cannot think of anyone he put in a line position other than Ric Grennell who wasn’t in the end an embarrassment.
Mike Pompeo, perhaps?

By: jon baker

jon baker — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:35:24 +0000

I have been stocking up on vegetable seeds for a while. Many varieties of vegetable seeds can be stored in the freezer for years, as long as the freezer keeps working.
There is a deer I keep seeing around our mostly dead former peach orchard. By next deer season, if I and it are still around, and meat prices still high, I may shoot it. I have never killed a deer. I hunted squirrel as a kid , and yes, both sides of my family , Texans and southern Mississippians, outside of New Orleans, were still in touch enough with their pioneer ancestors that my generation still ate squirrel.
Ever noticed that the song about the Battle of New Orleans, they used “ squirrel guns”?

By: Aggie

Aggie — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:42:05 +0000

“Paging Mr. Jimmy Carter……..paging Mr. Jimmy Carter…..Mr. Carter, please report to the Courtesy Booth, your Economy is ready…..”

By: Griffin

Griffin — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:24:02 +0000

Instapundit posts those Biden stickers that say ‘I did that’ and it’s pretty amazing the wide range of gas prices around the country. Here in the Puget Sound area about the best you can find right now is $3.80.

When they back out food and energy the inflation rate is still 6%.

Restaurants are the place I really notice price increases as it seems more often then not the menus have prices crossed out and hand written in with higher prices. Of course they are getting hit from all sides with higher wages, higher food costs even higher costs for things like napkins.

Good times, good times indeed.

By: Gerard Van der Leun

Gerard Van der Leun — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:21:18 +0000

“Four little lamb chops = $23.00.”

That’s just Market Basket’s way of saying they want to keep those little lamb chops in their private collection.