Tag: inflation
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Stacey Abrams: When asked about inflation – “You can’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child”
She forgot to mention aborting babies will also lower your carbon footprint and help fight climate change. I’m not an anti-abortionist. But can we stop using the killing of babies in the womb to solve inflation and climate change? This is morbid stupidity.
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U.S. and California Economy is so great people are going to Mexico for lower prices
I wonder what kind of ad Gavin Newsom will run in Mexico telling Mexicans to shop in California? I guess living in a border town has its advantages as long as you can avoid the rampant crime and threats from cartels. Might be worth it for the great street tacos at low low prices.
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My personal inflation rate is 33.52%
The Wall Street Journal put together a handy little personal inflation estimator. You check off the boxes of the things you normally consume and they pop out an inflation number. If I was a more normal person that consumed more processed food, pop, beer & wine, and less meat I wouldn’t be feeling the pinch…
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Price of July 4th BBQ in 2022 up almost 21%
Remember when good ole Joe told us we were saving $0.16 on our July 4th BBQ in 2021? In case you don’t remember here’s the tweet. So, what is the story for 2022? According to a story in Marketwatch the price of your BBQ this year is up almost 21%! A new study from the Political…
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Why we suddenly feel the effects of inflation
Inflation isn’t something that just happened. It’s been happening. It’s been rising for decades and government has been misinforming the public. Since the Ronald Reagan Administration the U.S. Government changed the way consumer inflation is calculated. In fact, inflation has been above 5% consistently and probably close to 7% on average until 2020. In 2020…
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Economic professor suggests price controls to curb inflation
Talk about idiotic. How do these people get economic degrees, let alone a professorship in the subject, when they have nonsense ideas like price controls. Today, there is once more a choice between tolerating the ongoing explosion of profits that drives up prices or tailored controls on carefully selected prices. Price controls would buy time to deal…