If 90% is media hype why am I paying a lot more at the grocery store and at the gas pump?
You will pay more every year, it’s call inflation, get use to it, that is if you were born post 1900.
1. There's still a grocery store.
2. There's still a gas pump.
3. You aren't stealing your groceries and your gasoline . . . you're paying for them.
Let's see;
You are paying more at the gas pump, because oil is selling for more, the feds charge a lot per gallon in taxes, and the oil company wants a 10% profit margin?
The question then becomes, what part of that increase in costs, and subsequent increase per gallon to you, is a manifestation of recession?
If there was a recession going on, how can the cost of stuff actually rise?
Does not the market set prices? And if the market does set prices, then there must be people out there, literally 10's of millions of them daily, willing to and paying the higher prices?? Is that the recession you refer to?
Oh, and grocery prices, please apply the scenario above, in addition to the increased cost of delivery of the goods due to the aforementioned gas prices.