Enjoy the 2021 holidays, for things are about to go from super swell in the most booming US economy, ever, to global urban mass starvation…
Continue readingRest in peace, dear bread, sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Long live the five-dollar pizza! Plus, in at least one specific example, year-over-year price stability has been achieved…
Continue readingWhile Corporate America is focusing on preserving its precious profits, its customers and workforce are rebelling by walking away…
Continue readingWhat about when the thing you want just isn’t there? Where does the complete absence of something fit on the inflation spectrum?
Continue readingRemember the old saying, “you don’t want to see a world with $100 silver”? Yeah, well, we may just have to dial back our expectations…
Continue readingDon’t blame Charmin…
Continue readingThought inflation was already pretty bad? It’s actually worse than that. Much, much worse…
Continue readingSomething’s not quite right…
Continue readingAll the tricks to hide our unaffordable cost structure have reached marginal returns. Reality is about to intrude…
Continue readingShrinkflation?
Continue readingPeople thinking we’re in a recovery are in denial, or worse, and about that whole “no inflation” meme – that’s a fraud and a scam too…
Continue readingWill the US dollar or the Swiss franc always be valuable? We cannot know the future, but we can study the past, and gold…
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Average Joe must deal with big-time price inflation in more ways than one, and no, this isn’t “good for the economy”…
Continue readingSD Outlook: In this busy week, both the Fed and Trump will have many chances to remind us that the crap we’re being fed is actually steak. Here’s why…
Continue readingGraham Summers says inflation is here, and it’s BAD. That’s not the worst part though. Wait until you read what Graham says about 2019…
Continue readingAn item we all likely buy on a regular basis has a double-whammy price that includes inflation plus shrinkflation. We know how this story ends…
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