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7. If you buy food in small packages you are getting ripped off

Sat Apr 20, 2019, 09:14 AM

Apr 2019

that isn't inflation.

That is merchandising.

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When mainstay food and energy are removed from the equation, democratisphere Apr 2019 #1

Don't forget wage deflation. Drahthaardogs Apr 2019 #2

The value of a dollar ain't. democratisphere Apr 2019 #3

Food and energy are not in an inflationary cycle at all. riverine Apr 2019 #5

The grocery stores I go to sure didn't get your no inflation memo. democratisphere Apr 2019 #6

If you buy food in small packages you are getting ripped off riverine Apr 2019 #7

That's household inflation, the only kind that is real and matters. democratisphere Apr 2019 #9

No one is playing with the numbers riverine Apr 2019 #14

Numbers are touted with much fanfare one month only to be democratisphere Apr 2019 #15

Right. Once you strip out the traditional marybourg Apr 2019 #4

But they ignored the second mandate... Wounded Bear Apr 2019 #12

No, the second mandate is maximum employment riverine Apr 2019 #13