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Hedonically-adjusted words for the wealthy...
h/t @BCApplebaum
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You'd think Bernanke would at least read that.
If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it anyway. So shut up and shell out for some high society.
Next year they'll double the price just to make readers feel even more special...
And the idiot inbred fucks will gladly pay
In July, 2012 ... inflation was running at 2.1 per cent. In July of this year, the figure was 1.8 per cent.
-The New Yorker (9.4.15)
LOL
Typical MSM
Too busy focusing on gov agenda rather than looking at the 15% inflation fact right under their nose
fact: over the past 100 years our currency lost half its value over a 10 year period in average.
who in god's name would pay anything for New Yorker anyway? A fool and his money are sono parted.
Inflation has been arround 7 to 8% per year since 2008.
Now it's hurting people and they don't fully realize it.
Now, the inflation rate will continue and governments need to rise taxes by a shitload to keep the puppetshow going
and that will only add to inflation.
And as salaries rise about 1 to 2% per year, we're already way behind to keep up.
Since 2008, most of us have gotten 30% poorrer. Not in the amount of money we have, and that's what is confusing people but with what it buys.
Last friday, I went out with 3 of my best friends to get hammered and I spend about 500 euro's that night and so did the others.
And what I noticed is that most of the people who go out to have fun are above 30 years old. That did change a lot looking just over a decade.
But...the fed says that we are having DEflation, and don't the lower gas prices prove that???
/s
2 tiered banking system TBTF vs Smaller Banks
2 tiered inflation measurements Rich - Asset Inflation vs Poor - Basic Needs Inflation
Their end of year cartoon edition (is there really anythign else in there worthwhile?) is going for $13.99.......... WTF?
I'm not a New Yorker, nor am I inspired to be one. I've visited that shithole a couple of times and have no desire for it. So why would I care if the price of propaganda increased for the mindless?
I can't think of a time that I've ever knowingly read the New Yorker; and I can vow that I've never, in my life, bought a copy.
As a percentage of the price, this image actually shows that the rate of inflation is dropping.
*removes tongue from cheek*
update - see SweetDoug's post below
Jesus Christ, why would anyone bother?
You can get much better, well, everything, on the internet for free.
Including The New Yorker.
TFSA marches on unabated. We want it awesome and we want it free.
Jesus Christ, why would anyone bother?
Why are you asking Jesus this question?...
Because he is the closest to GOD who knowes everyting.....
And it's allmost X-Mas.....
Coffee table status symbol.
I always enjoyed the Charles Addams cartoons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams
In the June 2015 edition, who is the guy diving into an upside down umbrella, wearing nothing but a pair of underwear? What do it mean?
They always have stupid cartoons, that nobody understands, unless you're part of the secret clique and then they might let you know what's supposed to be funny about it (if it's funny at all).
I always thought the cartoons were the best part of the magazine. Some I've remembered since I was a kid. Surely some of these make you snicker a bit:
https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=new+yorker+cartoons&sa=X&hl=en&gl=ca&authuser=0&biw=1920&bih=1075&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwiFg8Ou_OnJAhWVCI4KHaVtDR8QsAQIKw#imgrc=KUCmsocWZAht7M%3A
In black and white.....WoW
"That's the problem with ZeroHedge --- no one to bite"
To be a member of the elite comes with a price tag.
Yes, you carry it under your arm purposely showing the title and price while riding the train to work.
Well, I guess that's before some subway thugs beat you to a pulp and steal your Air Jordans.
I always have one folded under my arm along with a Wall Street Journal to impress my fellow subway passengers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYc0yK_iFM0
A blatant attempt to price the goy out of the market
Well if you want to be called special its Gona cost ya more
The lower price being asked is just the illusion of it appearing larger than the others and therefore having moar intellectually digestible content due to it being closer to the camera.
For-The-Cheeelrun ;-)
There is no Inflation. One may be confused because when one goes to the store many items cost more than in the easily-remembered past. But that is not Inflation. That's just "stuff costing more."
You mustn't throw important words around like children's playthings; you could undermine Faith and Confidence In The System.
I'm glad my salary went up 1$ a year otherwise i could not afford the New Yorker any longer.
More expensive than a Sears and Roebuck catalog. Those wish book catalogs used to be used as toilet paper back in the day. I think The New Yorker is getting it too expensive for such things and it would definitely clog my shitter!
I had a tough dad. We had to start from the cover. Softening that bitch up took twice as long as the business that required it's use. And it was slightly less painful than the pinecones we had as default. Cheap assed son of a bitch.
After our tetanus shots my dad told us we could use coons,
but they bite and are not that absorbent at all.
Luxury.
In my day, the toilet was just a hole in the ground that we flushed with a bicycle pump and Al Gore's tears, toiletries be damned!
Fixed costs / declining circulation = uh oh.
Do people actually pay for that?
Just like the fuckin apps , they do. Shows the dumbness of Amerikans. Must be inbreeding
Two oz's of silver over 4 years.
Did someone mention Platinum?
I'm open for some well managed Kangeroos
Yen you crazy fucker, you seriously want Plat? I might be able to facilitate that, but not in roos. Maples perhaps?
Hang the Elites!
Nearest lamp post!
C'mon kids, the last two pictured are double issues. I just went to look at the regular one from last week and it is still $7.99.
Just for fun/
nineteen pennyweight= 1toz
thirtyone.one grams
u sure? internets telling me one penny weights 2.5 grams.
That is the weight of a debased penny. Check out the weight of a copper penny, and btw I always pull those from my change and save them. :)
Zat so? LOL. Well it's still a pretty picture.
Anyway the subscription price tends to be dramtically lower.
... if you still want to read this leftover from the 1960s.
That's partly due to the fact that nobody reads this cesspit anymore
"Look out Marshall Lucky! It's High Prices!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ip8gspFaH8
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It's a free market.
My guess is that they might not be pulling in the same advertising revenue and need to make up for that through price increases.
They're doing what many doomed restaurants do: when they can't attract customers on the basis of their food, service, and dining experience, they start raising prices to meet expenses, which drives away even more customers, and then it's the end.
i wonder if they would have the gall to ask for a taxpayer-funded bailout? Probably not, but then again, they are fairly leftist/progressive and believe in that redistribution crap...
More likely they're marking time till a rich uncle or aunt---think Jeff Bezos---buys out Condé Nast.
Small price to pay for stories about poor aspiring rappers being discriminated against, endless holacaust stories, metrosexual ads and feminist complaints.
Transitory...........
Went to the website. First article is devoted to reassuring frightened cosmopolitans that Trump supporters won't show up at the polls.
Bets on who'll buy the New Yorker for a dollar when Condé Nast closes its doors?
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But the rate of inflation is slowing!
$1.00/$5.99 = 17%
$1.00/$6.99 = 14.3%
$1.00/$7.99 = 12.5%
$1.00/$8.99 = 11.1%
Everything is awesome!
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V-V
Another maganize that can go bye-bye.
Not even worthy of reading while on the toilet.
I wouldn't read that trash magazine if they gave it to me for free.
Haven't been to NY for years. Have no desire to return there.
Priced a good cut of beef lately?
The cholesterol won't give you a heart attack. Just looking at the price will. A good steak or rib roast is going to require bank financing soon.
Or bacon, I went to Costco the other day and was going to grab some but it was like 19 bucks.
The big (cr)appler
Years ago I dated a well-to-do Jewish girl who thought I was a bit rough around the edges. … She sat me down in her Victorian living room in front of a stack of New Yorker mags and said, “Read, until I can take you out into public without embarrassment.” ………….. On breaks in my studies she would insist we have kinky sex and talk gutter getto rapper street jive to each other using a set of props she kept in a cardboard box under her four-poster bed marked ‘Xmas Ornaments’.
Slightly off topic I know, but stories about inflation or the lack thereof need all the colorful distracting cartoon bullsheet sidebars they can get.
~ DC
Let them eat Yellen!