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Buy Gold...schlager: Booze Inflation Highest In 20 Years
Americans can handle soaring rent, gas, and even food prices (all those thing that the Fed conveniently ignores) with the stoic patience of a Greek who welcomes 160 German tax collectors on his rehypothecated front porch. But if there is one thing that is sure to kindle the revolutionary spirits it is the soaring price of booze. As it just so happens, ships are parked in the Boston harbor with crates of Grey Goose prepped for tossage overboard as we speak. As the following chart of alcoholic beverage inflation indicates, courtesy of John Lohman, January saw the biggest month over month spike in booze inflation in 20 years. In other words, about 90% of all traders alive today have never seen a bigger jump in liquor inflation in their lives. Then again, with nobody trading any more, and since the new venue du jour of most of said now ex-traders is the local watering hole, perhaps we are seeing demand pull inflation in at least one item. Needless to say, there is something very ironic that surging alcohol inflation is the only thing that is resilient to the central banks (un)sterilized liquidity explosion. The good news: there is distinct relative deflation in the cost of ammunition. At least for the time being...
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Good tune. I remember when that came out, I lived near Johnson County for a while. You did not mess with those hillbillies.
Keeping plenty of booze stocked up for bartering is always a wise part of any prep plans.
The price of everything is going up and will continue to go up. We shouldn't be surprised that alcohol is included in that lot.
What's the driver behind booze inflation - ethanol subsidies and mandates?...Can't be helping. These days with every ten gallons of gasoline burns one gallon of alcohol (which could otherwise be 2+ gallons of vodka!).
So, let's see....to add to the dry tinder of 300mm firearms in the US, high unemployment and currency debasement, we also have vats full of millions of gallons of potable alcohol strewn across the corn belt too (and almost certainly made at a net loss).
Nice going central planners.
Line from future Canadian, historical docu-drama:
"In light of these circumstances, Barak Obama's onerous Bluegrass Music Tax of 2013 turned out to be particularly unwise..."
they don't make ethanol, with potatos
Oh yes you can!!!
Goldschlager is for strippers, bitchez.
That shit'll give you dain bramage.
That affect didn't shit me.
Make your own. It's cheaper.
Tequila isn't that good of a liquor to cost me $20 for 750 mL.
I've gone back to cheap vodka; Kamchatka is still $5.79 a fifth and as good as anything else really.
The Scotch prices are what hurt me because I like it.
use charcoal filtering and improve the flavor, even add to the flavor.
Two thoughts:
1) Bad booze hurts you twice
2) All tequilas are not the same
That is all.
Party on.
It's not all gloom and doom. We're still better off than the rest of the world on this score:
http://strikelawyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/important-measure-of-nation...
Run bottom shelf vodka through a britta filter and save a few bucks.
You can probably get 'Mat Shots' gratis at any bar left where they still freepour. <grimaces>
And Moslems the world over didn't have a single fuck left to give...
I was a Tangueray and tonic guy but tried New Amsterdam and won't go back. Much better tasting gin for $19.99 a 1.75 L bottle. Even T Ten tastes kind of plain after N.A. If you like gin you owe it to yourself to try it.
Thanks for the tip.
Heh ya'll im doin my part im shitfaced!!! BTW wtf is a selective default? Is that a "high quality" default?? Let me guess......it's a better than expected default that doesn't trigger cds.
Fuck 'em all.
I think a selective default is like selective fire.
And you don't have the rifle....
Kinetic event at my place Saturday night.
corn vodka futures.
Distill your own alcohol for fuel or booze.
Grow some cannabis if your state permits.
In CA - 12 (immature) plants - outside grow yield - 2-5lbs/plant - call it 20lbs for the novice.
At $100/oz that's a smooth annual income.
http://www.priceofweed.com/
Want to some real sedition?
Turn your front and back yards into a farm - permaculture.
Grow your own food. Go to jail.
I have been a Zero Hedger since February 2009, and although it might not be the best place in the financial blogosphere for trades, it is one of the only places for truth. For that, I am thankful. It helps keep me sane in this crazy 1984 world. I have said it once, and I will say it once more, wake me up when Project Mayhem starts.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Let's be deceitful!
Xactly
Here in the South we know all about alcohol and revolutions.
The South will rise again !!! It just ain't going to be able to walk straight, is all...
Great link I want me one of those!
I'm long copper pipe asnd rye wheat.
Fight for your Constitutional Rights given to you by the Eighteenth Amendment!
Can the kleptocrats afford to let America stay sober?
Now were cookin with gas.
Even the boooze makers are caught in biflation's grip:
Beer Drinkers Hit Hardest in Weak Economy: Report
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46118346?__source=yahoo|headline|quote|text|&par=yahoo
Stock up, booze will last almost as long as silver/gold/lead.
Alright, enough talk.
Who's up for a expedition to Boston harbor to hunt goose?
All kidding aside...
What would be the best type - i assume Whiskey - one will drink anything when desperate.
And what will last the longest in an unopened state? Glass bottle of Whiskey?
I'd say vodka, myself. A whiskey-drinker who can't get whiskey will more easily get by with vodka than the other way 'round, but you can always play it safe and get both. A common enough brand to be near-universally recognized.
Shelf life of any full-proof alcohol in a sealed bottle is effectively unlimited. Doubt anyone would recommend something like Rock & Rye or Triple-Sec, anyway.
A few cases of pint (200ml) and/or half-liter flask-style bottles forgotten about in the cellar might turn out to be a worthwhile cache. And if not, you can drink 'em or whatever.
I have been looking at where I could reduce my miles driven since the cost of gas has gone up. I make one trip to the local beer distributor each week. Then it dawned on me that if I buy a half keg beer kegerator I wouldn't need to make a weekly stop. I could go to every other week therefore saving gas money. Made sense to me. tlnzz
we need another Whiskey Rebellion that would make our past rebellers proud
Cheers!
I'll drink to that
If I have to spend THAT much more money on booze, that's going to cut down on the lap dances I can afford or the quality of the drinks they get............sorry bitchez, life ain't fair.
I can see it now: "Mad Dog 20/20 for the biyatch grinding on me please..............."
He means "Acapulco Gold" Right?
MMM mmm Good.!
The liquor industry is a prime example of crony capitalism. The burdensome regulations keep us moonshiners hiding out in Hazzard County. Liquor is easy to make and this problem could be fixed in short order.
Be careful to spread your purchasing of raw materials, anything large like one ton of sugar could point back to you.
WAH WAH WAH!!!!! QUIT YOUR BITCHIN'!!!!! AT LEAST YOU GOT TO DO DAISY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzg_XJwE678
Just 'cause no one's mentioned yet...if it ever comes to strict rationing, you can achieve anywhere from 4x to 10x greater buzz if you administer the alcohol rectally.
Dilute well.
No way am I ever going to another Frat party, period.
its probably not that difficult to triple or ? distill supermarket vodka, which runs about $8 for 1.75. like all these tales of inflation, most of them don't stand up. two buck chuck (cb, merlot, shiraz, several whites) is still $2 a bottle in Ca, and if you pour some O2 through it most experts think its premium wine. and for all those designer beers, steel reserve is the still less than a dollar a pop at 8%. and plenty smooth... though of course stone's arrogant bastard is the greatest beer on the planet.
by the way there are booze coupons and forever the distillers were prohibited from advertising on TV but no more. i saw a Makers Mark ad the other night, funny no one tells you the rules have changed. maybe its open season on the Fed chairman, who knows?
If you're not inclined to homebrew, and like a little better fare, I found that the 1.75L Rue 33 vodka from Sam's Club is not too shabby. Costs about $30.
Of course, I don't even drink that too often- the little lady likes UV Blue, so that's what we usually drink. At least it's cheap, and tastes ok-ish. Anything will work, if you drink it fast enough and hold your nose.
I can't afford gold but I can sure afford some Johnny Walker Gold Label. Skoal.
Booze? Just wait till your average American can no longer get his/her Paxil, Oxy, cocaine, etc due to price and/or supply disruption. More than 1 in 10 are on anti-depressants alone.
Anyone forced to go off meds cold turkey will have their worst symptoms amped up by orders of magnitude for probably a couple days at least. This is one reason why I have been slowly going off-meds for the first time in years. Just one more happy pill to kick... and then I will be obsessed and unpredictable enough to survive the Attack of the Lizard People.
Tri-tip on sale for $5.99/lb at local supermarket. On sale!
Booze Inflation but Deflation in Ammo.
Sounds like a perfect recipe for liquor store raids like in London the other day were the Brits didn’t even use the ammo lOlz
No Matter what ZeroHedge Reports(which is mostly to scare people and bearish news) The Market always goes up in a straight line. Balls to ZH.
Its BULLS all the way WORLD OVER
Make mine a Bootleg Hootch.
why the sudden surge in liquor price?
http://www.jinrongbaike.com/ http://www.cnhedge.com/
It must be those damn speculators. again.
Booze inflation? How about the Power Ball? They just doubled the price from $1.00 to $2.00. Now that is inflation, and it says a lot about the cost of speculation for both the individual, and the Government.