Are we experiencing an off-the-books boom? (Something fishy is going on in consumers’ wallets.)

Hot Air ^ | March 19, 2013 2:41 pm | 1 by Ed Morrissey

[Myrddin]

People are likely buying hard goods with their currency before the government fully converts it to toilet tissue.

[killermosquito]

Inflation is killing us but it isn’t being reported:

http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp

[killermosquito]

A half gallon of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts. Products are shrinking but prices remain the same or are higher. Bugs the heck out of me.

[Nachum]

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[bert]

I’ve seen no evidence of the thesis for this article. I think the writer is blowing smoke.

[cherry]

that is where I want to be....no debts and under the poverty level....I think then I could get a break on property taxes....

the way to achieve this without suspicion would be to gradually go off credit cards and onto only cash...

[sport]

No. The “boom” is afigment in the imagination of the obama worshiping media. Its purpose is to pacify the sheep and apparently it is working. The media wil go to the pits of hell and back to cover for their god; obama.

[sopwith]

I’m in that camp.

[Jet Jaguar]

Well put.

[LadyBuck]

Davis-Bacon was my worst nightmare as the manager of a small construction company.

On one fairly small job (under 25k), I had TWO D-B compliance people up to my chin because I wasn’t charging the taxpayer enough.

Davis-Bacon is nothing more than forcing the honest businessman to over-charge as to be competitive with union douchnozzles. And then we get to pay for the douchnozzle oversight people’s salaries (who otherwise couldn’t make change at the local 7-11)

[Red Boots]

It’s a pain, that’s for sure ! Unfortunately, that’s the only work around these days.