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There Is No Inflation (Unless You Eat Food, Use Water, Live In A House, Get Sick, Go To School, Or Do Taxes)
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
Government data reports are so funny. The blaring headlines today tells us that prices dropped in December. We are all saving billions from the drop in oil and gas. Hallelujah!!!
The corporate MSM never digs into the numbers to get the real truth. These reports and their distribution to the sheep are designed to keep you sedated and calm. Facts are not necessary. How this data pertains to your everyday life is not important to the .1% who control the flow of information.
Here is a link to the detailed inflation numbers by category. We already know they massage these numbers to achieve a happy ending, but even the massaged numbers tell an entirely different story than the one peddled to the masses by the government and corporate media.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t07.htm
Below are the annual price increases for items that might impact your life on a daily basis:
Food at home – 3.7%
Food away from home – 3.0%
Meat – 12.7%
Fish and seafood – 5.6%
Eggs – 10.7%
Milk – 5.2%
Fruits & vegetables – 4.1%
Coffee – 4.2%
Butter – 22.5%
Natural gas – 5.8%
Footwear – 2.8%
Prescription drugs – 6.4%
Newspapers & magazines – 4.8%
College textbooks – 5.0%
Cigarettes – 3.1%
Apartment rent – 3.4%
Owners equivalent rent – 2.6%
Hotels – 7.3%
Water & sewer – 5.6%
Medical care -2.4%
Hospital care – 4.9%
College tuition – 3.4%
Postage – 4.1%
Tax preparation – 6.1%
I don’t know about you, but the costs listed above account for a significant amount of my budget. Do those price increases jive with the message being spewed by the government controlled media?
The credibility of their numbers is highly questionable in that they say health insurance accounts for .75% of a person’s annual budget. They actually have the balls to say health insurance fell by 0.5% over the last year. I’d love to hear from anyone out there whose health insurance premiums fell in the last year. Mine went up by 20%.
Your government keepers will continue to drown you in propaganda and misinformation. But the average person should know they are being lied to. They see how much money they have left over at the end of every month. If any.
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Hot Pussy - 100%
Good weed - 20%
Hot pussy is always expensive.
Not in Belarus.
But in Belarus you need two items
A condom and a whellbarrow
lmao. Nice post... The hookers are probably pimped out from the local Hardware Store.
It's a great time to learn about free food from wild edible plants.
http://naturecoastpermaculture.com/wild-edible-plants/
And learn to make your own:
Beer: 20%
Rock Concert Tickets: 15%
Minimum Congressman Bribe: 24.7%
Everyone's feeling it!
And a ten pound bag of flour
Sizes are decreasing for things too... the old standard 5 lb bag of sugar is now 4 lbs
the once rectangular bar of soap has a big scoop taken out of it now (I doubt it' so it's easier to hold)
Coffee doesn't come in pound cans anymore - lost track of how small that's gotten
Cereal boxes are half full now - same size box with less in it.
From 3/11/2011 - ZH
Earlier today, Goldman New York Fed plant, and Jan Hatzius predecessor, Bill Dudley, emerged from his ivory tower to make a trek to Queens to deliver prepared remarks written by some intern, discussing the prospering state of the New York burrough (speech link). Unfortunately for the multi-millionaire, things quickly went from Unicorny and Rainbowy to horribly wrong.
During the Q&A, one audience member asked: "When was the last time, sir, that you went grocery shopping?" A stunned Dudley did not have the heart to elaborate that the caviar and ambrosia eaten on the Dudley family table is hand delivered through the Fed's G-6 from Kamchatka, so instead, as Reuters reports, he "tried to explain how the Fed sees things: Yes, food prices may be rising, but at the same time, other prices are
declining. The Fed looks at core inflation, which strips out
volatile food and energy costs, to get a better sense of where
inflation may actually be heading."
So, Dudley sought an everyday example of a price that is falling.
"Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful," he said referring to Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) latest handheld tablet computer hitting stories on Friday.
"You have to look at the prices of all things," he said.
This prompted guffaws and widespread murmuring from the audience, with one audience member calling the comment "tone deaf."
As for the FTMFW comment from the audience, which apparently did not realize (unlike the prevailing thought at all other Dudley luncheons) that there is massive career risk in highlighting that the emperor is naked, has rolls of fat around his neck, and has a hairy ass, it was the following:
"I can't eat an iPad," another quipped.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/former-goldmanite-and-head-new-york-fed...
Incidents like that make life worthwhile.
Gov is insuring that tracking devices are widely obtainable and remain affordable....
Orwell never thought that the sheep would be buying their own monitoring devices and reporting on themselves at all times.
"let them eat iPads"
I want both lol
Actually those two are experiencing deflationary pressures.
Pussy will get cheaper...at some point it will be a dozen eggs and a roll of TP for the good stuff
The one absolute essential for women is tampons. Stock up now. Hehe. Man, this world. I tell ya.
"tampons" are nothing more than another Wall Street gimmick for stuff that people have to buy over, and over, and over again, for an item which formerly was reused, i.e. washable menstrual rags ....
True, but they will be in demand
actually a co-worker last night was talking about the diva cup which could possibly take profit from the tampax industry
She uses it and just thinks it is way better then the alternative...
saves a lot of money... lots of girls do not know about this yet as of course the mainstream won't talk about it...
here is a link
http://divacup.com/
ha-ha the things that get discussed at work....
Lots of women know about this but haven't tried it bc there's a learning curve that's sort of...well, gross, and there are a small percentage of women who end up just not being able to use it, for that or a number of other reasons. But it is a viable alternative, and when crunch time comes they'll be very valuable. These things have been around since at least the 80s, but I'd say then hardly anyone knew about them. Now it's a huge online buzz - nearly every woman-centered forum discusses them at great length.
Thank goodness silver has been on sale all year.
Our health insurance premiums actually Doubled ....fucking 100%
Me too.
We fucked some folks
We lied to some folks
We Grubered some folks
so did ours
... six stages of inflation ... 1. shock ... 2. denial ... 3. anger ... 4. depression ... 5. resignation ... 6. acceptance ...
(You forgot Stage 3.5. Posts on ZH claiming Deflation)
Considering 18+ trillion in debt (and not including the $100+ trillion in future liabilities), you should have at least:
$10/loaf of bread
or
$20 gallon of gas
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So where is it? Inflationist never have the answer to that. Inflationist had their say and the markets have spanked them for being wrong. You have less money for living because you income is being sucked dry by the government.
That is a good question and why this dichotomous debate is so fascinating.
Interesting that you use the example of bread and milk on a post on an article about the rising costs of bread and milk. Even so, the UK is witnessing historically low prices of milk. So something different is going on there in that specific market. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/07/supermarkets-milk-price-...
I wish I knew the answer to your question. I don't. But, even in the seventies when nearly every reasonable economist was predicting $10 loaves of bread, it actually never got there. If you were alive back then, nobody doubted these prices would occur. Gas prices certainly seemed ridiculously high, but also there were shortages in fuel. I would assume you might see these prices when/if the Fed allows for REAL price discovery of debt. Artificial forces seem abundant. (Gold suppression, ZIRP and NiRP, intentional devaluations, QE, blah blah blah) Until then, you get very distorted markets.
You may notice my avatar has a severe strabismus trying to stare straight ahead.
The bakery of a supermarket has the biggest profit margins of any section except perhaps booze, so you won't see dramatic increases there.
Automatic milking machines have lowered the cost of milk
http://www.americandairymen.com/articles/robotic-milking
Inflation is in the cost of living. When everything except wages goes up 5% each year, then that becomes a problem for most people.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A body found on the grounds of a California desert resort hotel has been identified as that of a missing AIG executive who failed to turn up for meetings last week, the sheriff's office said on Friday.
Did they recover the nailgun??
It wasn't a nailgun this time. It was a desktop stapler and took 40 staples to the carotid to do the trick...
beware rising gas taxes...........Bastards.....all of them
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/11/13/michigan-senate-plans-vote-on-gas...
WTH. One Bastard Goes in, and Two Bastards come back out.
No one ever leaves the US CONgress or Leave Lobbying Congress
- Except for Phil Gramm, he deregulated Glass Steagal Banking Act, then went into Banking
- And ones that go to Jail
- And Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Snow, Barbara Boxer,
Best to focus on Putting them in Jail for a real Deterrent
- They convicted over 5,000 big shots in the Savings & Loan Crisis clean up, including Charles Keating of the Keating Five
Treason & Racketeering.
"We'll miss Omar."
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department in a brief statement said the remains found in a small pond at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert, about 120 miles (193 km) east of Los Angeles, were those of 33-year-old Omar Arce Meza.
A cause of death had not been established for Meza, who lived in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Diane, sheriff's officials said. They did not say how they believed the body came to be in the pond.
http://news.yahoo.com/body-found-california-desert-resort-missing-aig-ex...
The Man Who Knew Too Much:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049470/
Wife states he suffered from memory loss from car accident. Perhaps his memory was returning.
I just drink liquor and do blow all day... I guess I'm good?
Cool...I didn't think I was the only one...
I sure do miss being single...
Depending on the economist inflation is an increase of the money supply not price increases. Well that was what they told me dammit. Those are pice increases and not counted in inflation. Dam economist always confusing me!!!
And more properly....money supply * velocity of money. Price increases are simply a symptom of real inflation.
Repeat after me, bitchez:
"As long as there is no wage inflation....there is no inflation dammit!"
This is all you need to know about fed policy.
True, as well as bond market inflation, other wise nobody gives a shit.
Dish washers are the same nominal price 45 years ago. But much better.
Big, fat, juicy Whoppers TPTB feed to the Sheep, and they love them.
I'm not talkin about Burger King either...
According to the gubbermint, global warming will kill us all any day now so don't fret about inflation or lack there of...
Fedex and UPS enacted two weeks ago (new year) a dramatic increase in shipping rates. Each year they raise rates 4.9% but this year that increase went into effect together with new "DIM" rate scheme that will cause a massive increase in rates among every shipper using their services.
Google Fedex DIM rates and read about it yourself. Basically rates just went up 20-30% as a revenue grab. Precious little mention in the press. I think FedEx UPS wanted it quiet, but make no mistake its a huge increase and will raise prices for nearly all goods in coming weeks.
Many smaller shippers are not even aware of the DIM rate scheme. Sticker shock will arrive when bills are mailed out.
Apparently they didn't get the memo that lower gas prices are just like getting a tax cut.
Let the dinosaurs go. Its an opportunity for small delivery services.
Wow, I'm so happy that our government is working SO hard for the 99%! Boy, those lobbyists must be DUMB [MAROONS], giving all that money to Congress critters who then vote for the "little people".....
These number are too low. We moved here October 2013 (southern coastal region) and eggs were selling for $1.96 per dozen for jumbo. Same eggs sell for just under $3.00 today. Meat...forgetaboutit.
My weekly purchases have been decreasing in cost over the past 12 months.
My expenditures mainly consist of crack cocaine and rented pussy, but these two datapoints are all you really need to know.
All of the other shit on the above list are frivilous/impulse purchases...
I've been using the "cheese block" inflation measure. When I moved here in the Western US from Asia 6 years ago you could buy this huge 2 lbs block of cheddar cheese for just $5.50. I told people it was the "best deal in town", because you could shred it and freeze it and add a touch of cheddar to anything you made for months.
Well a couple years ago I picked up the cheddar block and it was unusually light. The reason? It was now 1.5 lbs but STILL $5.50.
Was just in the store last night and the "best deal in town" looked puny indeed, now a paltry 1.3 lbs but STILL $5.50! My cheese is fading away.
Soon it will be 1 lb for $5.50. 100% inflation in 6 years.
If you ask an economist, he will say "there's nothing wrong with that. It's the markets at work."
If you ask a doctor, he will tell you that your hands have gotten bigger.
You don't believe that, so he will pass you on to a psychologist who will put you on meds because you don't think your hands have gotten bigger. Now that you're on meds, you can't think critically anymore, so that 1lb block of cheese for $5.50 seems like a great deal! WIN WIN WIN for everybody.
Who stole your cheese?
Wow, even cutting a cheese is gong up.
yep, I don't quite make double of what I did in the early 90's, but then I bought a new vehicle and saved a ton of cash and bought a house.
Today, been driving a used 1998 for twelve years, still runs good, bought another vehicle used, 1992 and put money into it to fix it up, no savings and live in an apartment.
I lived better in 1991-1999 than I do today.
Looking at the inflationary increase in the items from meat to butter, how can food at home only be 3.7%?
They assume we're no longer eating any meat. And since we're not eating any meat, no pudding either.
I'm gonna go gnaw on a cardboard box now...
Going directly to the source?
'Micro-cellulouse' - e.g. wood fiber - is now a common food extender found in many fast foods and processed foods.
This must be one of those 'replacement' choices that the CPI calculators talk about... when steak becomes too expensive you buy hamburger, when hamburger becomes too expensive you eat pink slime... when flour becomes too expensive you eat sawdust....
HOW is this 'substitution' NOT indictive of INFLATION?!?!?
Some truth there. Whatever chicken is on special and ground turkey here. Rarely beef or pork.
Probably because there is no more room in the average paycheck/EBT card to bear the cost of increasing items, so people are substituting. Can't afford steak? Buy pork. Can't afford pork? Buy hotdogs. Price of food for humans finally out of reach? Buy catfood.
Or, they are lying through their shit-eating grins. Probably both.
I've never understood the stories about pensioners eating cat food.
1kg (2.2 pounds) of Minced Beef is US$4. I can get a dozen sausages for US$2. Meanwhile 1 measly can of cat food will set me back $1.50 or so. It doesn't make economic sense to eat cat food. Hell I just bought around 1kg of Pork loin chops for $8.22 (about US$6.90)
this can be fixed so easily ... federal and state government should hire every single unemployed/under-employed person and pay them $40/hr ... problem fixed ...
Read this article from the LA Slimes. Makes you want to puke at the BS
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-consumer-price-index-inflation-oil...
Let the author know what a fuck face cheerleader he is
'john.glionna@latimes.com'
letters@latimes.com
Damaged Feedback Loop. Politicians like to talk about spreading confidence about the currency, country, state, and our communities. One of our Founding Fathers say something to the effect that it was better to spread around confidence than to spread around Fiat. Madison?
The Parents that run our country for us keep spreading lies.
How can we have citizenship when government officials lie to us about the cost of living increases and prices going up. How do we act as Informed Citizens, Responsible Voters, if we have crap info. Even Civilian Deaths in Iraq & True Military Spending as a result of the Afghanistan & Iraqi war and the 400 plus camps around the world. Was it over 700 bases?
- Damaged Feedback Loop
- Orwellian Circus
- Fake Inflation Rate, Fake Unemployment numbers, Fake GDP Numbers
- They don't even tell us how much Fiat has been Created, where the most was Created, and how much Wall Street banking is responsible for Creating & Where they Invested that money
- Money Velocity? They don't even mention it any more
Propaganda means controlling the Information, controlling the Narrative, Damaging the Feedback loop in the Press, in government, in all Leadership (like Nazi Germany). Worst trick in Propaganda is treating us like Frogs, slowing changing our Free Enterprise, Free Market System, allowing big money & Big Corporations to Control Legislation, Control the Military, and CON-Troll War.
Yes, we are boiling frogs. CON-Gress gave up War Powers, Legislative Powers & Budget Powers... it is a Non-Stop Party in Washington DC.
The Federal Government now serves as Royalty in all Things. In fact many WASPS & Catholics like the Image of having the biggest house, most expensive Cars and making big decisions for the Community or State. Everyone can enjoy the Vicarious Image of Royalty.
And that is what we have. The 1% think they are Royalty and that they must make the big decisions for all of the USA.
- Damaged Feedback Loop, Damaged Citizenship
- Propaganda has always been the tool of US Government
- We are Boiling Frogs, the heat & debt slowly at first, now growing exponentially
- The 1% Are Royalty in their minds & in Deeds
- Federal Government has gone Full Retard
- Your Family Savings, Legacy, & Retirement is in Jeopardy
My health insurance premium (grandfathered non-Obamacare) will go up only 11.8% this year! (In 2014 it went up 19.7%.)
Restaurant meals are my favorite indicator, and they've been jumping up in the last year faster than anytime in the last twenty, 3% my ass, more like 10% in the last year.
And that's probably cutting workers below 30 hours to avoid Obamacare, and not yet reflecting new increases in the minimum wage.
I love sending out the Ministry of Truth's blurbs about there being little to no inflation to my father. The y make him resonate between laughter and anger.
He says that is so bad that the one grocery store near him no longer discounts near out of date meat by 50%, but only by 20% now.
The banksters need to repay us.
Oh, and they will. "Off with their heads!"
Augustine's Law
I feel terrible for WIC people. Milk was $2.79 last year and is $3.80 now. Organic milk is $7.29.
I'm considering offering free eggs from my farm to WIC folks. This is simply not sustainable.
- Price of Meat, Chicken, Fish, and Eggs Hits Record High...
- AND Electricity...
- FEDS: Majority of public school students in poverty...
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Der Vaterland. Propaganda Increased Value of some sort.
- Marry Zionism with Nazism = US Propaganda & Police Powers
- Democide
- Financial Control, Globally
- Control of Currency & Domestic Investment
- Massive Federal Spending, Exponentially Growing
- Zaibatsu or Kiretsu Type Support of Largest "National" Corporations, Chaebol
- Zero Money Velocity, Low Wages, Low demand for Labor = Loyalty to the Fatherland & to Corporate Executives
- Zero Money Velocity, Low Wages, Low demand for Labor = few Whistleblowers
- Zero Money Velocity, Low Wages, Low demand for Labor = No Free Press, No Free Speech outside of Fatherland Media
Der Vaterland = Systematic Control
Der Vaterland = Systematic Monitoring
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Repost:
CB is Racketeering & Treason (Just like US Congress, Our So Called Parents, who ship Jobs overseas while taking Bribe Money from the US Chamber of Commerce and Our Kiretsu Corporations to do it). FX Exchange is probably a Racket too.
These guys just "Gaslight" everyone into thinking Banking & Finance & Legislation & Income Taxes have to be hard. Just like writing out long Legislation to put on top of reams of other Legislation. Tax Code of 70,000 Pages. WTF?
- You can't come up with one reason why we need Central Banks
- We can set up Regional Centers for Cash Notes in the Event of a Bank Run
- Leader of Last Resort, Discount Window, we know they should have called it the Government Printing Office from 2008-2011, we don't need that if we don't export Fraudulent Derivatives and have to bailout foreign governments to prevent war
- Look at Domestic Private Investment Levels, Look at Capital Equipment & Facilities Expansion... these are small numbers compared to the $1.7 Quadrillion in Global Derivatives, WTF?? USA is the Richest county, but we don't have anywhere near $1 Quadrillion in Assets & Stocks & Bonds
- CBs are very cool with Exporting Jobs & Industry & Military Secrets & National Technology (They are Vultures)
- CB are cool with new minimum wages & Obama Care Taxes... and they don't have a problem with Augustine's Law, the exponential Increases in the Cost of US Military & US Weapons... So they don't count Food, Shelter, Health Care, Social Security, Education, or Military Costs in Inflation... and Fiscal Policy is not their Bailiwick... Even though Federal Spending is Exponentially Growing & represents Half of the Economy Now
NO, I'm sure we can't find a single reason to have a CENTRAL BANK... Not when they are all on the Take, and True Pirates, True Racketeers.
Strange how butter and meat, those foods government tell us are so unhealthful (i.e. worthless) are up so much.
Another year in the books.
I measured inflation at around 5.3% for the general every-day type purchases. This doesn't include higher healthcare or tax rates. Those aren't as easy to compare on a year to year basis.
Certainly, gas has dropped. But, food also seems to have slowed down. Utilities were way up, at nearly 7% each.
The biggest one by far was cash allowances. We use cash for a lot of everyday purchases. Cash doesn't go far at all. So, there's big inflation on the stuff without a monthly bill.
We are suffering from crushing stagflation.