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Everything’s Deflating And Nobody Seems To Notice
Zero Hedge - Automatic Earth ^ | 10-22-2015 | Tyler Durden - Ilargi Meijer

Posted on 10/22/2015 10:19:33 AM PDT by blam

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To: Toddsterpatriot
Is that how you turn 25% into 100%?

No, that's how you demonstrate that you are communicating with someone who wants to believe nonsense, and doesn't have the comprehension level necessary to be convinced otherwise.

Or a decline into an increase?

You could just say you don't understand the concept and leave it at that.

81 posted on 10/22/2015 3:26:25 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
You could just say you don't understand the concept and leave it at that.

You're right, I don't understand how you can claim a drop from the $2.50-$3.00 area down to $2.35 is an increase.

82 posted on 10/22/2015 3:37:10 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
You're right, I don't understand how you can claim a drop from the $2.50-$3.00 area down to $2.35 is an increase.

And I bet you believe that if you threw a ball in the air, it would never be higher than your hand, because that is where it started, and that is where it ended.


83 posted on 10/22/2015 3:54:05 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
I guess if we weren't discussing gas prices in 2007 and in 2015, you might have a point.

Since I never claimed gas prices didn't go much higher, before they dropped, you don't.

Gasoline was $1.65 in 2007, went up to $3.85, and is now back down to $2.35,

According to the link I posted, more than $2.50, nationwide in 2007, about $2.35, nationwide, now.

84 posted on 10/22/2015 4:00:49 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: DiogenesLamp; Grams A; Toddsterpatriot
Anyone on a budget is well aware of it.

I'll stick my nose in here - Albeit that I won't exactly support your 100% figure (I can't because my buying habits are effected, and thus are not comparable). Costs are way up. I am tightly budgeted and the past four years have been increase over increase for less and less product. But that has driven me to staple goods and canned goods, and toward the generic and bulk... And far away from convenience and luxury foods. I now scratch build almost everything I eat, and it is all simple fare, with very few goodies or treats. Even things like lunch meats and bread are rare purchases.

And bread is a good example - Used to be I could find a good, medium-quality (top shelf, but not designer) loaf for under two bucks, now it's often over four. Instead, I buy the staple goods and make my own bread at less than a buck and a quarter a loaf.

So while I can't explicitly defend your figure, I am most certainly in agreement with you.

(and yes, store bought milk is pushing $4/gal here in cattle country too)

85 posted on 10/22/2015 4:22:39 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

Baking your own bread is very therapeutic, tastes wonderful right out of the oven with butter and honey and makes the house small great. Even given all those benefits, I stick to just biscuits and muffins out of the oven because I’m too lazy to make bread anymore and because Kroger now has a large loaf of wheat, 3% fiber, at $1.00 a loaf.

Simple food has always been and will always be better, IMO. Macaroni and cheese, big pot of chicken and noodles, meat loaf and mashed potatoes. All good stuff.


86 posted on 10/22/2015 4:44:55 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Brian Griffin

The three they called for might have been fine for a 21 oz. box.”

And particularly since eggs cost so much now. Sometimes I wonder if they have test kitchens any more before they print the instructions for the new box size.

Grandson commented that we can now afford to buy bacon but can’t afford the eggs to go with it. He loves omelets and would eat one huge one every night for dinner loaded with veggies and all kinds of stuff. Not an every night meal any more.


87 posted on 10/22/2015 4:49:34 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A
Baking your own bread is very therapeutic, tastes wonderful right out of the oven with butter and honey and makes the house small great.

Yeah, I've really gotten into it... My only complaint is that baking heats my house up too much in the summer. So I am building an outside wood-fired kitchen for that purpose (among many others, to include canning time). It will have a grill, a pizza-style oven, and a hot/cold smoker... I literally can't wait.

Even given all those benefits, I stick to just biscuits and muffins out of the oven because I’m too lazy to make bread anymore and because Kroger now has a large loaf of wheat, 3% fiber, at $1.00 a loaf.

I can get 1.00/loaf bread here, but it's more air than bread... If I buy bread it is usually Franz brand's oat/nut bread or hazelnut... and I have a preference for light rye, now and then... Not heavy loaves by any means, but structural enough that it can take being spread by real butter :) ... Butter gets cold here in MT...

Simple food has always been and will always be better, IMO. Macaroni and cheese, big pot of chicken and noodles, meat loaf and mashed potatoes. All good stuff.

I have only recently begun cooking (pretty much since my divorce 4 years ago), But I definitely prefer exactly what you are getting at... even to the point of putting in a garden to get better produce too - I grew up with all that, and the surprising thing is how much of it just came flooding back to me from my mother's kitchen when I was a lad. That woman taught me more than I'll ever know... I never cooked a thing, but I watched her do it for decades, and knew most of her main recipes by heart. Most of my cooking comes directly from her.

88 posted on 10/22/2015 6:00:28 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

Good for you. My son and oldest grandson love to cook, But they never follow any kind of a recipe so if something turns out to be really good, they have trouble replicating it. It’s begun to cool down in our part of Texas a bit so it’s time to add a big pot of gumbo to the menu as well as something with homemade spaghetti sauce - which with my grandsons seems to work on everything! Have fun with your outdoor pizza oven. Sure beats anything from the store.


89 posted on 10/22/2015 6:17:59 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: ForYourChildren
Or, the people can just do as Jeb Bush said, "It means that people need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families."

Jeb is an idiot. For the last few decades people have worked longer and harder to gain more income... only to see government salivate as the people go into higher tax brackets and lose their income as taxation. All the while, government increases fees and taxes. Yup, people need to run faster on that hamster wheel, that's the ticket. (Or, we could lower taxes and regulations.)

90 posted on 10/22/2015 6:45:55 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: SamAdams76

Pepsi used to have these nice 6pk of 24oz soda...now, you think you’re grabbing it and they’re only 20oz...


91 posted on 10/22/2015 10:05:18 PM PDT by cherry
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To: LS
why aren't prices coming down?....other than fuel?....

average families can't buy many cuts of meat...

92 posted on 10/22/2015 10:06:32 PM PDT by cherry
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To: DiogenesLamp

about 3 yrs ago you could occasionally buy name brand tuna for 3/$1....now, you find it on sale for one can, 68cents...


93 posted on 10/22/2015 10:12:57 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry
Housing prices have been stagnant for years. Autos fairly flat. Energy---which is huge---flat. Prices in the film industry have fallen dramatically. Wages pretty flat.

Food has gone up, more reflecting international but local problems than inflation. Medical, because of Obamacare's perversions, is soaring. But when you factor houses, wages, and energy (not to mention most commodities), food is the outlier.

94 posted on 10/23/2015 3:33:55 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Toddsterpatriot
I guess if we weren't discussing gas prices in 2007 and in 2015, you might have a point.

We aren't discussing two disembodied points in time. We are discussing the entire range between 2008 and 2015, and frankly I have become convinced that you aren't up to the level of comprehension necessary to continue any sort of discussion.

Gas prices went up because of Obama's stupid policies. They came back down because the industry and technology advanced. In other words, they came back down despite Obama.

Had the industry and technology not made advancements, (fracking, shale oil processing) they would still be way up there at around double the prices of 2008, (or higher) just like everything else under this stupid jackasses regime.

95 posted on 10/23/2015 6:46:35 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: roamer_1
I'll stick my nose in here - Albeit that I won't exactly support your 100% figure

I said "nearly 100%". Some things are more than that and some things are less than that.

100% is a good, easy to understand number, and it saves a lot of time by rounding up to that, but from what I have observed, it is not quite 100%. I would say it is between 85% to 100%, but the anecdotal data is squishy.

The cost of a quart of oil is up 400%. Anti-Freeze is about double. Batteries are almost double, but not quite.

So while I can't explicitly defend your figure, I am most certainly in agreement with you.

(and yes, store bought milk is pushing $4/gal here in cattle country too)

Can we agree that the figure 25% is utter nonsense? That things are up far more than 25% since 2008? That the Obama government is absolutely lying about inflation?

96 posted on 10/23/2015 6:59:28 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Gas prices went up because of Obama's stupid policies. They came back down because the industry and technology advanced. In other words, they came back down despite Obama.

Absolutely. Which still doesn't make your inaccurate 2007 gas price number any better.

97 posted on 10/23/2015 7:24:24 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: cherry
about 3 yrs ago you could occasionally buy name brand tuna for 3/$1....now, you find it on sale for one can, 68cents...

I am not finding any Star Kist, or Bumble Bee tuna for $0.68/ can. I'm finding it at $0.95 per can.

But yeah, we can safely conclude that Tuna is up around 100% or more since 2008.

98 posted on 10/23/2015 7:33:21 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Brian Griffin

I, when I have my reading glasses with me, always go by unit prices....its the only way I can figure out what is the better buy....


99 posted on 10/23/2015 9:13:44 AM PDT by cherry
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To: DiogenesLamp
I shop and I'm a careful shopper....many things have gone thru the roof...some have stayed the same...

eggs are outrageous now.....I notice Fred Meyer had good peanut butter prices though...

bread seems to have stayed the same....meat very high...even turkeys...

overall it takes much more money today to buy what you could several years ago...even with a few items staying the same....

100 posted on 10/23/2015 9:17:06 AM PDT by cherry
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