I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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Birds weren't dying of Bird Flu when Trump was President.
Gas was $2.30 steady while Trump was President.
Food was affordable when Trump was President.
Heating your home was affordable when Trump was President.
You could buy baby formula and tampons when Trump was President.
OPEC didn't laugh at our President when Trump was President.
Joe* is a loser. Joe* is a loser who surrounded himself with a bunch of loser gays and loser women and loser minorities that weren't qualified for the jobs they're supposed to be doing because they ticked off the woke checkboxes, and unlike having them in Hollywood where they just make one bad movie after another that you can just easily ignore, these people are ruining the quality of life for hundreds of millions of American citizens.
Go fuck yourself.
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Quote:6ix, picking a different commodity than gasoline, natural gas, baby formula, eggs, etc. might make it clearer to you how inflation operates.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Birds weren't dying of Bird Flu when Trump was President.
Gas was $2.30 steady while Trump was President.
Food was affordable when Trump was President.
Heating your home was affordable when Trump was President.
You could buy baby formula and tampons when Trump was President.
OPEC didn't laugh at our President when Trump was President.
The commodity is DIAMOND GEMS. This inflation game is run by the sellers, not by Biden or Trump, neither of who have any control over diamond prices. There is something called blood diamonds that sellers can use to justify high prices for gems, just like egg sellers use bird flu, which cut back their flocks by 10%, to justify raising the price of eggs by 500%. But whether it is eggs or gems, sellers are depending on the psychology of buyers to get the buyers to pay ridiculously high prices.
Hopefully, 6ix, you already understand that diamond gems sell for many times higher prices than diamonds are worth. If you don't see that, then nothing makes any sense and you will continue to believe that diamonds are actually very reasonably priced because of their natural rarity and the difficulties in running diamond mines in Africa.
What Determines Diamond Cost?
https://www.gemsociety.org/article/what-determines-diamond-cost/
This article does NOT demystify how prices are set: “Diamonds used to go through the hands of several intermediaries (as many as eight) from mine to wholesale to retail. Each of them took a cut before the diamonds reached retail.”
But there is a documentary from Showtime that does demystify. The sellers of diamonds understand how to get buyers to overpay:
The DeBeers diamond cartel cornered the market on eternal love with “A diamond is forever,” but now a wave of undetectable synthetic diamonds has flooded global gem markets, threatening to expose the artifice that props up a multi-billion dollar industry.
Can you tell the real thing from a fake? What if the difference no longer matters? Interviewing diamond merchants, DeBeers executives, auctioneers, gemologists, designers, investigators and scientists, this film explores one of the most beautiful lies ever told.
Nothing Lasts Forever (2022)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16317380/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nothing_lasts_forever
‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ Review: Brilliant Diamond Doc Reveals What Could Burst the Bauble Bubble
It takes perhaps a billion years to make a diamond, and just 87 minutes to shatter so many of the misconceptions audiences have about them in “Nothing Lasts Forever.” Make that eight minutes. That’s roughly the point at which jewelry designer (and “Stone” author) Aja Raden — the only woman interviewed in Jason Kohn’s wild, decade-long delve into the secretive world of the diamond industry — offers up this gem: “The truth about diamonds is: They’re all exactly the same, and none of them are really worth anything.”
For some, that revelation could hit with the force of being told there’s no Santa Claus, even though it’s been an open secret for ages. Most audiences probably already have some inkling of how the De Beers diamond cartel took a not-particularly-rare stone and infused it with value by cornering the market, stockpiling most of the world’s supply and controlling the release at such a rate as to set the price. (This phenomenon is hardly limited to gems.) None of this would matter if the demand weren’t there, but it is, thanks to one of the most successful marketing campaigns of all time: the infamous “A diamond is forever” tagline, whereby De Beers convinced the world that only a diamond would do for wedding engagement purposes.
All of this context is entertainingly woven throughout “Nothing Lasts Forever,” though the core of Kohn’s inquiry concerns the emergence of sy
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Hopefully, 6ix, you already understand that diamond gems sell for many times higher prices than diamonds are worth. If you don't see that, then nothing makes any sense and you will continue to believe that diamonds are actually very reasonably priced because of their natural rarity and the difficulties in running diamond mines in Africa.
Diamonds aren't worth shit. Diamonds were never worth shit. Kindergartners know that in 2023.
Next.
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Quote:Diamonds are only an example of a commodity price that is not controlled by the President of the US. And pretty much everybody knows that about diamonds and Presidents. But there are still some people who keep insisting that Presidents control the prices of other commodities such as gasoline, eggs, baby formula, natural gas, rent, milk, etc. Sorry to tell those people, but commodity prices are controlled by the sellers of commodities, not the President. The sellers strongly hope that buyers misunderstand who is cheating them out of their money. It is a great advantage for sellers if the President gets blamed for price gouging rather than the sellers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Hopefully, 6ix, you already understand that diamond gems sell for many times higher prices than diamonds are worth. If you don't see that, then nothing makes any sense and you will continue to believe that diamonds are actually very reasonably priced because of their natural rarity and the difficulties in running diamond mines in Africa.
Diamonds aren't worth shit. Diamonds were never worth shit. Kindergartners know that in 2023.
Next.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Tax Implications for Small Businesses Inside the Omnibus
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/01/17/the_tax_implicati
ons_for_small_businesses_inside_the_omnibus_875994.html
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Why are egg prices still so hard to crack?
the average price on a dozen “Midwest large” eggs was up to $5.46 as of late December 2022, well above the $0.89 it was at at the start of 2020
https://www.vox.com/2023/1/17/23559013/egg-prices-bird-flu-inflation-a
vian-influenza
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Makes no matter to me. I stopped buying eggs when they went over $2.
Fuck eggs.
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(In addition, as Torrella notes, maybe the way to be really good here is to start giving the chickens a vaccine.)
Double fuck eggs. I won't be ingesting that shit. Have fun letting me know how the mutant eggs react with your Covid jabs everyone.
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AXIOS: Data shows the rent is (still) too damn high
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/data-shows-the-rent-is-still-too-damn
-high
FOX BUSINESS: Consumers are piling on credit card debt, flashing signs of potential crisis
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/consumers-piling-on-credit-card-de
bt-flashing-signs-potential-crisis
(archive link to avoid paywall): https://archive.ph/VWadb
But by all means, let's keep talking about everything that isn't about The People.
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Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm group claims it’s a ‘collusive scheme’ by suppliers
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/high-egg-prices-due-to-a-collusive-sch
eme-by-suppliers-group-claims.html
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FOX NEWS (by Bernie Sanders): Greedy pharma firms rip off Americans while Pfizer, Moderna swim in profits
5 of the largest US pharma firms totaled $80 billion in profits, but millions of Americans can’t afford medicine
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greedy-pharma-firms-rip-off-americans-
while-pfizer-moderna-swim-profits
Don't forget to mention that you voted in the affirmative on a 1.7 Trillion Omnibus Bill that will strip 19 Million Americans of their medicaid coverage come April, Bernie.
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