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I didn't believe you until I actually read the article, about the stupidest fucking thing ever. But I guess Ms. Lowrey is right, we oughta stop buying those peskie expensive luxury items
Like food, soap, and gas...
From the article: "Costs really rose. A dozen eggs went for $1.33 the summer after the pandemic hit; the price topped out at $4.83 last winter. Gas prices nearly tripled. Used cars started trading for as much as or even more than new cars. The cost of leasing an apartment surged. The cost of buying a house went up even more."
Jackass
Libtards will stop at nothing to try & bend reality to fit their narrative
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/inflation-prices-buying-habits/676191/
4 words.... Volatile food and energy.... The official inflation numbers do not include many things in that piece. During Carter's failed second run hid administration changed how unemployment and inflation were calculated. Inflation has been reworked under Bush the first, Clinton and Obama since. Each time it takes out more and more things that are "basic" to everyday life. "Food, Energy, Taxes, Transportation (other than public forms), secondary markets for durable goods and cars and on and on are now excluded from the base CPI numbers.
btw.... eggs out here in AZ went from .99 cents a dozen to right around $10 a dozen at the peak. At Costco you could bet 24 for $18.00 and they were flying off the shelf.
A few pro-vaxxers round here have gone missing as well. We should unlock the Vaccine thread again.
Oh.... where are the pro maskers? We had a few in here who changed their avatar to them with a mask on... then there is "suck"...
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While the spirit of the article is clearly BS, people being willing to pay higher prices is part of the equation. At some point people choose to consume less and get alternatives, and more people get in on the production side, like keeping chickens.
I'm a huge fan of supply-side economics and I believe that not enough attention is paid to the regulatory obstacles that hurt production.
The regulatory obstacles are there to keep competition out of the picture. Try having chickens in a residential area and you'll find regulations that prohibit it for example.
When the large companies found out that you could lobby and fund congress to get regulation installed under the guise of "public safety" the market ceased to exist in a functioning form.
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