Posted on 12/10/2021 6:27:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Does this include shrinkflation? I notice a lot of packages getting smaller in the grocery store with the price staying the same or even going up. The big food corps are the worst.
Time to start removing more things from the inflation calculations.
Paid off my 30 year mortgage at 16 years, two years ago, thanks to PRESIDENT TRUMP!......... GOD BLESS HIM & HIS FAMILY!...................
Yeah, like Food, Fuel, and FOOLS.......................
I am effecitvely debt free. My mortgage is miniscule and it should be paid off next year. It is higher than yours, at 4.5%, but re-financing costs would outweigh any gain.
In my town, its the taxes that are killing me.
Having money left over after paying the bills is a nice feeling.
Have you noticed that Campbell’s Soups are actually in larger cans now?................
Right.
Our first house and mortgage was in Dec 1980. 15%!!
Of course back then interest rates were also high on the savings side. I recall a bank in NYC that was giving out all sorts of big ticket items when you bought a CD there. From tvs to washing machines (we got one of each for our new home and the tv lasted almost 25 years!) to CARS if you bought a really long term CD. They were hurting for deposits at any interest rate.
But the country is much more calm. Congress is working together and no early morning tweets. Personally I was getting sick of mid east peace.
Those suburban women who were so offended by President Trump’s tweets must be saying to themselves:
“I sold my soul to get rid of Donald Trump and all I got was raging inflation, loss of energy independence, chaos at the southern border, skyrocketing crime rates, bare shelves, and unconstitutional mandates?”
There are adjustments for that sort of thing in the CPI calculation but assuredly inaccurate during a rapidly changing inflation scenario.
The sad thing is that it probably was when they first said it, because it was being compared to the flat inflation of the prior lockdown year.
However, Biden's policies since they said it have drastically hurt the economy (canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, stopping drilling, the supply chain backup, terminating healthy workers, rampant crime, out-of-control boondoggle spending, coddling our enemies).
-PJ
Anything compared to 2020 is worthless. 2020 was such a outlier.
Cramer is a babbling baboon...................
Building Back Economic Ruin Better!
And going up.
My real estate taxes in NH are now $9600/year on a house I paid $270K for 9 1/2 years ago.
However, I do not pay income or sales tax.
All the grifters who took checks last year and continued to take them this year??
Enjoy yet Shiite Samdwich and go to hell I told you what was gonna happen if you allowed this to continue and you put your hand out and cast the checks
We conservatives know what’s going on with inflation, crime, the southern border, etc. But does the average suburban swing voter know? Sure, she sees inflation when she goes shopping. But the ‘NBC Nightly News’ will tell her that, in general, everything is just fine.
Let’s hope these ladies wake up before the next election.
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