I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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University of Michigan: Inflation Expectation
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JQtI
Median expected price change next 12 months, Surveys of Consumers. The most recent value is not shown due to an agreement with the source.
This data should be cited as follows: "Surveys of Consumers, University of Michigan, University of Michigan: Inflation Expectation© [MICH], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MICH/, (Accessed on 12/14/2021)"
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JQRp
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JQRx
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JQS5
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Nobody cares about those graphs when they're worried about how they're going to pay their bills and they're buying food on credit.
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Congrats, Biden* team.
We're now seeing records being broken from before the day I was born.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/the-most-small-businesse
s-since-1978-raised-prices-in-november-due-to-high-inflation/ar-AARNzdc
Go Joe*!
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Quote:There is the strongest connection in the universe between not having money and not having enough commonsense to understand simple concepts, such as those concepts in the graphs. People who suffer are the same people who are absolutely certain they already know what they absolutely don't know.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares about those graphs when they're worried about how they're going to pay their bills and they're buying food on credit.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There is the strongest connection in the universe between not having money and not having enough commonsense to understand simple concepts, such as those concepts in the graphs. People who suffer are the same people who are absolutely certain they already know what they absolutely don't know.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares about those graphs when they're worried about how they're going to pay their bills and they're buying food on credit.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Once again... Not talking about myself. I'm fine.
Your graphs are bullshit, and you have no understanding how money works.
What's happened in the last quarter of 2021 is that expanded unemployment benefits ran out for tens of millions of Americans, Rent/Mortgage moratoriums ended, all while the average rent went up 13+% for the year, house prices have reached asinine levels after bidding wars all spring and summer for them, Gasoline has increase over 50% from last year, winter heating costs are up anywhere from 40% to 100% from last year, depending on your location.
For the moment, we won't even discuss what's going to happen to those millions of renters and homeowners who will lose civil suits and be forced to have their wages garnished for the rest of their lives paying back all that free rent they had for a year and a half with interest.
Most of the people who actually don't know how to read your cute little graphs are the minority voters that Democrats had always just taken for granted would always vote for them.
Looks like they were wrong. It's a 50/50 split on Latinos between Democrats and Republicans now, and I guaranty you that there will be a higher percentage of blacks voting against Democrats than did so in 2020.
Joe* had better stop listening to out-of-touch, apologist idiots like you and start addressing these problems, or you're going to lose the minority vote.
All you'll have left then are college "educated" whites and radicals.
Good luck with that party ever winning any elections going forward.
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I kicked your ass in here, so you decided to pile on and fling ignorant and meaningless personal attacks with the resident Feminist trash in the other thread, huh boy?
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Here is a case study of inflation in action. By the way, nobody can stop this price gouging, except the people in the hospital who set the prices:
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-bi
lling-markups
Leaked Scripps records reveal huge mark-ups for hospital care - Los Angeles Times by David Lazarus
Ridiculous, seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system — and a key reason Americans pay more for treatment than anyone else in the world.
But to see price hikes of as much as 675% being imposed in real time, automatically, by a hospital’s computer system still takes your breath away.
I got to view this for myself after a former operating-room nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas shared with me screenshots of the facility’s electronic health record system.
The nurse asked that I not use her name because she’s now working at a different Southern California medical facility and worries that her job could be endangered.
Her screenshots, taken earlier this year, speak for themselves.
What they show are price hikes ranging from 575% to 675% being automatically generated by the hospital’s software.
The eye-popping increases are so routine, apparently, the software even displays the formula it uses to convert reasonable medical costs to billed amounts that are much, much higher.
For example, one screenshot is for sutures — that is, medical thread, a.k.a. stitches. Scripps’ system put the basic “cost per unit” at $19.30.
But the system said the “computed charge per unit” was $149.58. This is how much the patient and his or her insurer would be billed.
The system helpfully included a formula for reaching this amount: "$149.58 = $19.30 + ($19.30 x 675%).”
You read that right. Scripps’ automated system took the actual cost of sutures, imposed an apparently preset 675% markup and produced a billed amount that was orders of magnitude higher than the true price.
This is separate from any additional charges for the doctor, anesthesiologist, X-rays or hospital facilities.
Call it institutionalized price gouging. And it’s apparently widespread because the same or similar software is used by other hospitals nationwide, including UCLA, and around the world.
The former Scripps nurse said she decided to snap photos of the system as she watched stratospheric price hikes being imposed while a patient was still on the operating table.
She said one of her jobs in the operating room was to keep a running tally of all supplies used during a procedure. As she entered each item into the system, it automatically noted the actual cost and tabulated how much Scripps would bill for it.
“I understand that hospitals have overhead,” the nurse told me. “But to mark up something like sutures by 675% is insane.”
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Frontline workers are getting raises, but inflation is whittling the gains to "pennies"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-real-wages-raises-workers/
From Coffee to Gasoline, Inflation Surges Everywhere in 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/from-coffee-to-gasoline-inflation-surges
-everywhere-in-2021_4154124.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=RCP
Guess I'll have to cancel that cruise vacation I've been planning since never.
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Quote:Prices can be raised no higher once the price gouger has taken all the money. That is why prices rise to match wage increases. From the viewpoint of the price gougers of America, this logic of price gouging is impeccable.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Frontline workers are getting raises, but inflation is whittling the gains to "pennies"
Wages have been declining
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-wages-have-been-declining-steadily-
throughout-2021/
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