What would you do faced with 50% inflation?
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I'd bet that our inflation is closer to the 25% mark than what is being reported. From what I understand food and energy aren't factored into our inflation rate.
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Isn't it amazing the things everyone has to have to live aren't included!
Housing isn't either. The top 3 items were pulled from the inflation # mix because it made things look bad. That happened either during Clinton or Bush II.
I've been avoiding buying burger because of the cost, but I caved the other day and bought some because I wanted some fresh burger, because I wanted a nice cheeseburger, lol.
I bought two packs for a total of 5 pounds, 35 bucks. One year ago it would have been 10 bucks.
I bought two packs for a total of 5 pounds, 35 bucks. One year ago it would have been 10 bucks.
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Yikes $7 a lb. Too much. Glad I got the half a cow
Local firehall is having a raffle for a 1/2 cow. I bought 5 tickets.
It'll be worth the $20 if we win and if not it goes to a good cause (the volunteer firefighters)
It'll be worth the $20 if we win and if not it goes to a good cause (the volunteer firefighters)
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I haven't bought any beef for years, and very little chicken or pork. We raise our own.
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Last week we had trouble finding propane so my husband ended up doing the tank swap. Was at Dollar General and overheard a man saying he was having trouble today too.
Just "food for thought" (pun) at what point are the cats not being fed but becoming food?
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Coyotes think they're food all the time
Where I lived in CA when I was little, there was a group of Laotians that moved into the area. Within a very short time-frame, all the stray cats and dogs disappeared.
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Last time Ma ordered vanilla beans, they were $35ish for 4 oz. I just ordered her a new bag - still 4 oz. $57! Hasn't been that long.
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According to this, it's waaaayyyyyy beyond a measly 30 trillion. He starts talking numbers at around the 7 minute mark. His ultimate guess is $105 trillion (with a T). His warning at the end is something I've been feeling for quite some time now. It's why I'm using cash every chance I get. Get out of cash and into assets folks. I agree with Glenn here. It's gonna get ugly.
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Ditto that!
Just talked our guy 2 hours ago and we are shifting out of cash into what seem to to be solid investments that at least pay dividends.
Here is hoping the markets are done correcting...
Lot of hope.
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Yep, agree with Glenn, too. Get stuff you're going to need. Like food.
Indeed.. Here's a Very Salient post from 'over Yonder' (sorry to 'direct Outside the Farm', here, but.. Figured that'd be better than a 'Huge Cut n Paste', especially since it's not 'My info', etc, but..) Wow.. Very sobering, and a Timely Warning for any Family members who might be 'lagging' at stack-n-pack..
https://www.survivalistboards.com/t...midwestern-grain-farmer.977623/#post-21133040
..also, good 'secondary-problems thoughts', here, too:
https://www.survivalistboards.com/t...tern-grain-farmer.977623/page-3#post-21133588
Yeesh.. the 'Black Horse's Rider certainly seems to be mounting up..
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Yep. Can't eat money.
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We have been looking at our tools. Our wood splitting maul is about done, we need some new shovels etc. I have some building to do and my skill saw is a little iffy after 20 years of use. So those are some of the things our cash is going into. They may be less available or too expensive soon.
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With a lot of products at the supermarket along with fuel......
What would you do faced with 50% inflation?
My mind automatically goes to Bill Paxton in that scene in Twister when he says "It's already here!" After he says that folks go running for cover. I feel like Bill.......I can smell it in the air and.....It's already here! Most people just haven't figured it out yet.
What would you do faced with 50% inflation?
My mind automatically goes to Bill Paxton in that scene in Twister when he says "It's already here!" After he says that folks go running for cover. I feel like Bill.......I can smell it in the air and.....It's already here! Most people just haven't figured it out yet.
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I think some people believe that we'll wake up one day and SHTF starts. That day. But this is a sneaky SHTF...it's going along a bit at a time so no one notices too much. At first.
Exactly!
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Yup. We had fish tonight and hubs needed more fish seasoning so I got it out of the pantry. When I stocked the pantry with it, it was .99 per packet. I glanced at it the last time I was in the store and now it's $1.50. There's the 50% inflation right there on one product. Just b/c it's not an expensive product to begin with doesn't mean that 50% inflation hasn't hit. I'm glad I have a couple of flats of it, but sooner or later, we'll need more. Who knows what the price of it will be when I need to restock? Actually, I don't think I wanna know......
What's worse is that I don't think we've hit anywhere near the worst of it yet.
What's worse is that I don't think we've hit anywhere near the worst of it yet.
Well, I personally Opin (..and, forgive if I've posted this elsewhere.. Feel like I have, but carn't seem to Find it..
Gettin old, I guess, Lol.. that "We" (the USA, specifically..) are currently 'right about Here':
Translation? - America: Once believed 'Unsinkable', but now, Clearly severely-listing from the massive gash the 'Zommieberg' (progress of the NWO Cartel's AG21 / Great ReFist, et al) slit in the belly oh-so-many decades ago (and it's Been slowly sinking us, since..) and it's all but gone End-up, and irrevocably in the drink.
But - even now, despite all the 'handwriting on the wall' / context of the 'Crowbar of Covid' over the past 24 months or so, well.. SO-few people 'See this reality' - Just like the pic above - because the Ship is not (yet) Completely ass-up in the water (..the 'Lights are still on' / Internet, Starcucks, etc..)
..Heck, there's even still 'people playing Violins on-deck' (Hollymold, Disneyland, etc - all the 'Bread and Circuses', et al..) And even with many 'sending up a Flare or two' (sounding 'warnings' in blogs / forums / Here, etc..) But..
One morning, in the not Too distant future, we Will wake up to the 'unstoppable-Start' of the Upend of this 'Titanic' - just like 9/11 'changed everything that am' - and there will be No going back to "normal", not even this NWO Cartel "New Normal" (Pfff..)
..The 'gash' in the Underbelly is simply too deep and wide to right it. All We can do is 'SOS' in our respective 'lifeboats' (BOLs / MAGs, etc) and push back on the incoming Zommie-hoards as much as possible.
jd
