I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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Quote:When I was a child, the angry poor white trash would complain about high prices. "I used to buy a cold bottle of Dr Pepper for a nickel," they'd say. Those Old Timers never could grasp that prices are deliberately raised by the rich to make the rich richer, not stay where poor white trash remembered from long ago. 6ix, you are an Old Timer. If you were out on the ocean in a sailboat, you'd fear the Gulf Stream because you don't know how to use it to get somewhere faster. If you were a pilot, the Jet Stream would be terrifying for you. Again, you wouldn't know how to use it to your advantage. Competent capitalists know how to use bouts of inflation to get rich. Angry poor white trash, such as 6ixStringJack, who never actually understood who sets prices or even how to run a business, are terrified by inflation because they are destined by their stupidity, ignorance, drunkenness, and laziness to be poor.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's called a K shaped recovery, dipshit.
Your money buys a hell of a lot less for you than it did before Biden* was elected.
That includes stocks in companies.
This is how inflation works. It's why movies are always breaking box office records when all they do is count how much money they make and they're not counting tickets sold or constantly adjusting for inflation.
Read a fucking book, dummy.
Inflation Calculator
If in 1913 I purchased an item for $1
then in 2023 that same item would cost $31.02
Cumulative rate of inflation: 3001.5%
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1cUPk
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Yeah. I'm an old timer because I remember the good old days 3 years ago when you could buy a fuckin' 2x4 for under $2.
Get fucked, idiot.
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USA Today: Hungry for the holidays: Food insecurity spikes in America even as inflation rate slows
While the rate of inflation has slowed, food and housing costs remain high, and it is likely to take many more months, if not years, for households to regain financial stability.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/12/20/hunger-inflation-foo
d-pantry-snap-increase/71960106007/
Yeah. That's how inflation works, you stupid fucks. It doesn't matter if inflation gets back down to 2% and stays that way all next year. The damage is already done and the prices are never going to come back down.
Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage is still $7.25, where Barack Obama left it in 2009.
I thought inflation was transitory? That's what YOU kept telling us, USA Today.
Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck Democrats. And Fuck You.
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Personal Consumption Expenditures Excluding Food and Energy (Chain-Type Price Index)
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1d9dJ
The inflationary surge we typically associate with 1980 actually started in the late '60s and didn't fully recede until the early '90s. Call it 25 years.
Our current surge began in early 2021 and receded by late 2023. That's about 2½ years.
The Highest And Lowest Inflation Rates In US History, Visualized
The highest annual inflation level America has ever seen was in 1917, when the rate reached 17.84 percent.
Last year's eight percent annual inflation rate was the highest level of inflation the US has seen since the 1980s. It has since dropped down to 3.1 percent, as of November 2023, but that figure is still significantly above the Federal Reserve's two percent target.
While 2022 set a record for US inflation in recent decades, rates of inflation have reached far more drastic heights at other points in the country's history. Madison Trust used data from Rate Inflation to visualize the highest and lowest inflation rates the US has ever seen. https://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/usa-inflation-rate/
The Five Highest Annual Inflation Rates in US History
1. 1917: 17.84 percent
2. 1918: 17.28 percent
3. 1920: 15.63 percent
4. 1919: 15.24 percent
5. 1947: 14.39 percent
The Five Lowest Annual Inflation Rates in US History
1. 1921: -10.94 percent
2. 1932: -10.30 percent
3. 1931: -8.93 percent
4. 1922: -6.16 percent
5. 1933: -5.19 percent
The Charts and Graphs are at https://digg.com/data-viz/link/highest-lowest-inflation-rates-US-histo
ry?utm_source=digg
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Quote:therealSteveN wrote in Aug 26, 2021
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I'm an old timer because I remember the good old days 3 years ago when you could buy a fuckin' 2x4 for under $2.
Get fucked, idiot.
Last home I built for us was in 1980 2×4's were right at $1.79
Not long after we were done the cost bumped to $2.39
Between then and until recently they were fairly steady from $2.39 to around $2.69
Covid pricing sorta changed that gentle upswing in pricing. At least in SW Ohio where I am, at no time during this supposed "shortage" due to Covid were any of the local building supplies short of inventory, so the BS story I keep hearing as being responsible for the price changes is just that, BS.
Somebody at Lumber central said, finally we gettin us a pay raise. Gonna blame it on Covid.
https://www.lumberjocks.com/threads/what-did-a-2x4-cost-in-2019.315595/
What is the price today? $2.49
2-in x 4-in x 92-5/8-in Whitewood Kiln-dried Stud
Item #6003 | Model #S204SE.1.9258
Bulk Savings
$2.49/ Each (10.0% Off) when you buy 100+
https://www.lowes.com/pd/2-in-x-4-in-x-8-ft-Whitewood-Pre-Cut-Stud-Com
mon-1-5-in-x-3-5-in-Actual/1000525943?cm_mmc=shp-_-b-_-prd-_-lum-_-ggl-_-LIA_LUM_000_PRO-_-1000525943-_-local-_-0-_-0&gad_source=1
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Nope. $3.75 right now at Menards.
https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/lumber-boards/dimensio
nal-lumber/2-x-4-construction-framing-lumber/1021101/p-1444451086852-c-13125.htm
$3.18 at Lowes.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/2-in-x-4-in-x-96-in-Spruce-Pine-Fir-Kiln-drie
d-Stud/1000074211
$3.18 at Home Depot.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/2-in-x-4-in-x-8-ft-Prime-Stud-058449/31252
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Last home I built for us was in 1980 2×4's were right at $1.79
Not long after we were done the cost bumped to $2.39
Between then and until recently they were fairly steady from $2.39 to around $2.69
Bullshit. 1980 was in the middle of a recession and prices were high.
In the 90's you weren't paying over $1.50 for a stud. Up through 2020 it was still under $2.00 per stud. I know because I was actively buying them. This guy doesn't know shit because by his own admission the last time he built a house was 1980.
You wouldn't know, because you don't even know how to hold a hammer.
Get the fuck out of here.
The last two summers there were times where 2x4 studs cost more than $10 each.
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Quote:It's clear you don't know why there are 92-5/8" versus 96" studs. And use a nail gun, you moron. Or is having air compressor for the gun too expensive for angry poor white trash living on $7,000 per year?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You wouldn't know, because you don't even know how to hold a hammer.
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Wow dude. You've seen a nail gun in a movie before and are aware that they exist. We're all super impressed.
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USA TODAY: The staggering hunger crisis in America
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/17/food-banks-see-w
orst-rate-of-hunger/71505220007/
Fuck Joe Biden.
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Newsweek: Americans Can No Longer Afford Their Cars
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-can-no-longer-afford-their-cars-185
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LOL...
This is news to Newsweek in January of 2024? I think they missed the boat on that one.
Oh... and NO, Newsweek... You don't need to have an annual income of $100,000 in 2024 to own a car. Even with Bidenflation making everything you need to live cost so much more than it was only 3 years ago. Shut the fuck up.
This is what happens when all the local news gets shut down and the only news we get anymore is written by the 1%'ers born with silver spoons up their asses from all the large Democrat run shitholes.
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