Inflation seemed to me like a real thing up until the last couple years when grocery stores set prices way over the projected inflation rates in concert and left them there after the covid checks and eviction protection happened and then i became convinced that its mostly, in a globalized setting, just when corporate people decide poor people have too much money
They absolutely printed money for months in 2020 with restaurants closed/only takeout, bars not open, drinking way up, massive rise in house parties, etc and obviously those profits have to stay where they are no matter what.
Hence the raising of prices when that all dwindled. They liked those fatty bonus checks. Inflation is just corporate greed.
A family friend owns a Chinese delivery/takeout place in town and, anecdotally, they made money hand over fist during covid.
We have a Tom Thumb and a Kroger within five minutes of our house. Typical weekly grocery run there costs about $225. We started going to wal mart because the produce at Kroger and Tom Thumb had gotten really bad. Weekly wal mart grocery run costs around $125. I was floored at the price difference.
We all know the reasons to bag on Wal Mart, but shouts to Mr. Walton for consistently having the best spice aisle of any big box grocer in the PNW by a wide margin.
Gop: every dem is a pedophile and something needs to be done Gop who are in a cult: nothing is wrong with us
Last several Octobers have been really bad re Dow Also, who says you can't put a price on life? A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people abcnews.go.com/Busine...
The same conservative uncle your parents never left you alone with because they know what’s on his hard drive
The whole Joe Biden Did This stickers just shows how dumb the American public is. The five largest oil companies in the world made record profits.
There are times where I question if we're all just being punk'd in a real world simulation being run by Donald Trump and everyone else involved.
Joe Biden rounding up red pilled Facebook posting uncles sounds fn amazing. “listen up Jack, you can talk about Chem trails and the liberal media conspiracy from your cell in Florence ADX.”
Oil was -$34 a barrel during Covid, which happened during the Trump era which they love to forget, and a fuck ton of people lost their jobs, but by gawd Billy Bob could fill up his pavement princess for $1.88. We couldn’t even export the shit. Everyone was scrambling to build tank farms. That’s literally how I got laid off during all of that because the company I worked for had a massive layoff because we did work for all of the refineries and they stopped their shutdown/turnarounds so there wasn’t anything to do. That job sucked anyways, but a ton of people in O&G lost their jobs.
I just got a letter from Citizen's saying "good news we found someone who will insure you!" This isn't good news at all because it means they're kicking me off and making me pay 25% more from a private insurer, if not more. We're on the water, on a barrier island, so I do get it... but we've got a solid concrete house with a brand new roof and those fuckers refuse to cover water damage anyway since they classify it as a "flood" The whole thing is just a scam, and very, very frustrating. Anyhow.. time for my morning ration of $6 eggs.
Florida builds nothing and imports everything from North of the state line not a surprise inflation is high there, it’s a place humans aren’t supposed to live
I live here and believe the state would be better off if returned to the mosquitoes and reptiles. I will take my Brandon relo check and set up a camp near red rocks co
Colorado is a desert, the southern refugees are all gonna be sent to the Great Lakes region. Hope you like Michigan
Can someone explain to me how more people working is bad for the economy? This is a common refrain from economics people that makes absolutely zero sense to me.
My really rudimentary understanding is more work means more money in peoples hands means more purchasing means prices rising as demand exceeds supply (or price gouging, however you want to look at it)
Lower unemployment means workers aren’t as afraid of leaving their job for better opportunities which means workers tend to have more money in their pocket which means employers and owners have less leverage and money — and that is what’s bad for the economy.
Yes, there is a right balance needed of people suffering to make the whole system works. It's pretty awesome
Plus if more people are working our poor corporations have to pay better wages to keep employees from leaving and that hurts the bottom line
a friend of mine works in liquor distribution and hes going through this at work right now with the brass being pissed they just cant seem to hit those record margins anymore
I will single issue vote my SEC uncles to re-education camps, but I need some assurances that there will be excessive cruelty first