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doc03

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3. The rate of inflation will drop but prices will not drop and

Reply to DestinyIsles (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2023, 09:09 PM

Dec 2023

if they do that it is deflation or a depression. Really gas prices are the only prices that do go down.
Whatever we are paying for food is pretty much baked in now. Our garbage collector put on a surcharge
of $6 because of the fuel prices a couple years ago I don't see him taking it off.

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I'm glad inflation is starting to cool [View all] DestinyIsles Dec 2023 OP

Yes, frame as "Bidenomic stability" vs rapacious corporate greed Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #1

we paid $2.42 for gas the other day. WhiteTara Dec 2023 #2

The rate of inflation will drop but prices will not drop and doc03 Dec 2023 #3

This, prices are still going up, just not as fast as they were previously. MichMan Dec 2023 #8

A lot of retirees have seen their retirement nest egg devastated in the last 2 years progree Dec 2023 #4

IMO, rent and mortgages being out of reach is the main area where inflation is being felt. n/t Calista241 Dec 2023 #5

The $16 McD story was BS dpibel Dec 2023 #6

The $16 "bic mac" meal progree Dec 2023 #7