It's the propaganda number, they measure a few arbitrary selected items. not necessary essentials like utilities/rent, food, electricity/gas and other reoccurring purchases.
The question should never be how many bucks do you earn per hour for working one specific job. Always ask, how many hours do I have to work, to afford this and that. Once you need to work more hours to afford your most basic living costs, then you know roughly how high inflation actually is.
Obligatory reminder that government propagandists have changed how inflation is calculated twice now, in the 80s and 90s, but still compare the new extra fake numbers to the old ones.
Lol those are my bottom 3 to a T. I never agreed with the "consensus" of Buchanan being the worst, simply because of what he didn't do, i.e. magically prevent the Civil War. A President who does nothing is still better than a President who intentionally inflicts everlasting damage onto the nation like those three.
Honestly my grocery bill has been mostly constant. All rough estimates of now vs what I remember them being 5 years ago so a bit fuzzy, but these are prices I pay now.
Milk is about $5/gallon, was $4.50
Eggs are back to $1/dozen on sale but I tend to pay $2 for the fancy ones, back to what they used to be
Ground beef is $4/lb, was $3/lb
Tbone is $7/lb, was $6/lb
Ham is $1.29/lb was $0.99/lb
Celery is $3 / bunch, was $2
Carrots are $1 / lb, was $1
Fish is a terrible protein source, terrible bang for your buck. Weird cuts of beef that have some absurd price tag. Meanwhile tenderloin, tbone, ribeye, london broil, tri-tip roast, chuck roast, all great meats and still very affordable.
First you say your grocery bill has been "mostly constant." then you cite 5/6 items that have gone up. Oh, and by the way, in my area at least, things have gone up much more than that.
I have to use hundred dollar bills the way I used to use 5 dollar bills. So what? Inflation isnt an abitrary measurement from some time in the past - its annualized. And in the past 6 months prices havent budged.
Bread and meat and many other items have doubled since Biden stole the election but I guess everything is ok now that it hasn't continued to go up in a few months? I'll remind myself when I'm going broke at the store again that everything is going really well. Or when I get gas. Or when I attempt to go out to eat at a restaurant and see those marked up prices.
Well around 6 months ago there was a sharp drop for around 3-4 weeks for almost all food traded on the CME, since then it's been rising faster than in 2021-2022.
They've doubled or more in many cases since Biden stolen the election. But this faggot in the thread is like "blah blah they haven't budged in six months" so i guess everything is fine
Who fucking cares? The point is that biden has made things way worse. You're the only one arguing that point, nobody cares about aggregate annualized bullshit, we care what the dollar amount is that we're getting fucked by every time we have to buy groceries. If someone said the sky is blue you'd come in and say 'well actually sometimes it's not blue' nobody cares!
Honestly my grocery bill has been mostly constant. All rough estimates of now vs what I remember them being 5 years ago so a bit fuzzy, but these are prices I pay now.
Milk is about $5/gallon, was $4.50
Eggs are back to $1/dozen on sale but I tend to pay $2 for the fancy ones, back to what they used to be
Ground beef is $4/lb, was $3/lb
Tbone is $7/lb, was $6/lb
Ham is $1.29/lb was $0.99/lb Celery is $3 / bunch, was $2
Carrots are $1 / lb, was $1
Fish is a terrible protein source, terrible bang for your buck. Weird cuts of beef that have some absurd price tag. Meanwhile tenderloin, tbone, ribeye, london broil, tri-tip roast, chuck roast, all great meats and still very affordable.
Stop buying processed garbage. Raw food is better for you and way cheaper!
Chicken is garbage. It's barely a step up from rice as a filler to stretch your food. Eggs are even better than chicken. But again as a protein supplement and not a main protein source. I might get a rotisserie chicken because they're stupid cheap but otherwise I rarely eat chicken.
Meanwhile pork is still cheap and tasty. I'll take a big roast, cook it for 4 hours with no spices, feed half to the pets, then add spices and cook for 4 more hours.
Meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit, anything healthy really is up on average 40%.
It's the slop, bugs, fake meat and fake food in general that hasn't increased in value. Your 11.8% is a irrelevant average because no sane person should eat trash.
Groceries 12%. Lol! Fries are my metric. We're $1.79 a bag. Now $3.49. For plain old French fries. What a planned, intentional catastrophe because he knows he lost and wants to punish MAGA.
Let's not say "under Biden"... To be more accurate we should say "under democrats" because everyone knows all he does is rubber stamp policies coming from the democrat establishment.
Every democrat politician has to own his record because we know these are the exact same policies we would get if any democrat were in office.
Some of those numbers are WAY off. Inflation is far higher. Grocery increases are far higher. Electricity costs are far higher. Mortgage rates are far higher.
Those look like numbers from PedoJoe's first year.
Groceries are double what they cost a few years ago. I have a picture of a free range organic chicken that I bought in 2020 for $8.50. I have another picture of a regular factory farmed chicken (all that is now available so that's what I buy) in 2023 for $13.50. Just take pictures of whole chickens every 6 months if you want to see food costs in real time.
The earnings growth is what is most noticeable to me.
I was stuck with retail and food service from 2008 - 2016, I got out of the navy in 2008. Basically stuck paycheck to paycheck for that time and nobody was interested in my resume. Granted I could have done a lot better with my money back then, I was still stuck in a low income situation.
Then trump came along and my resume started getting hits and I got into manufacturing and got moved, starting in june the first year but still clearing 60k in 60 months.
Having been poor for so long I kep my living poor habits and was able to save/invest a lot, buying a house at the bottom of interest rates.
I started at $26/hr and by 2020 I was making $39/hr. My spending stayed the same, with a few luxuries here and there, so all I really noticed with terms of money was my investments and my paychecks growing as I changed jobs and got raises.
With covid and all that BS as well, in 2021 the job market started to go to shit. Recruiters were hitting me up for $22-26/hr with my experience, a significant paycut.
The job I decided to take took negotiations to get to $40/hr and it has a good schedule. Had things gone as they were going under Trump, I'd be making closer to $50/hr.... or I would've been finished with my homestead and plenty of investments/infrastructure to fully disappear in comfort in 2022.
Low interest rates were a double edged sword. They were too low too long without any measures to combat the investor covid boom. Low interest rates are great and certainly help home buyers get in the door and accumulate wealth faster. But they also encouraged investors collecting 'doors'. The covid boom would have been alot less painful without what 30% reported number of home sales going to investors. That number does not include those that took a conventional loan for an investment property or leveraged their existing homes to pay cash on another. I saw Entry level homes in my city being scooped up by LLCs or people from out of state and even out of the country. If the home was under 400k it was going to turn a profit and was highly sought after. So prospective home buyers had to either lose bid after bid or bid far higher and have cash on hand.
How to prevent this? Local governments have a budget based on property taxes. Adjust it so that primary homes pay less and investor properties pay significantly more. Either its still profitable or they sell someone who will owner occupy. As its local, then every city/county can determine their own needs as something like a college town would actually need more rentals.
They were too low too long without any measures to combat the investor covid boom.
There is no acceptable level of interest. You’re claiming foreign cultural forcings are irrelevant and natural and therefore economic health should be compromised to cater to them.
How to prevent this?
Make it illegal for foreigners to own property in your nation. Problem solved.
Local governments have a budget based on property taxes.
Which are unconstitutional.
Adjust it so that primary homes pay less and investor properties pay significantly more.
How about zero property tax for place of residence and only charge it on secondary properties.
It's the propaganda number, they measure a few arbitrary selected items. not necessary essentials like utilities/rent, food, electricity/gas and other reoccurring purchases.
The question should never be how many bucks do you earn per hour for working one specific job. Always ask, how many hours do I have to work, to afford this and that. Once you need to work more hours to afford your most basic living costs, then you know roughly how high inflation actually is.
Is there a source that tracks the increase in price of things like food, fuel, clothing and household goods?
Here's one commonly referred to site.
https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Thank you.
A user of Shadowstats. Excellent. Updoot!
Obligatory reminder that government propagandists have changed how inflation is calculated twice now, in the 80s and 90s, but still compare the new extra fake numbers to the old ones.
https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
well it's 6.5% over last year which was around 9% over 2021 which was also around 9% so it's around 25% over 2019.
Grocery prices have increased at least 50% for most products, in some cases have doubled or more. 11.8% is a load of shit.
go to Shadowstats.com to see the real numbers
Go buy potatoes and tell me what you see.
$1.29 Potatoes Baking Russet $1.29 /lb
Food prices havent budged in the past 6 months
The fuck are you smoking my dude?
I live in South Texas and even I'm feeling the increased prices of food.
I use to buy a pack of uncooked fajita meat for around $12, and now it sits around $25 for the same shit.
A pack of salmon (4 fillets) use to cost me $15, now it's almost $30.
Beef and fish have gone up so much since Biden took office.
I can't even get the same kind of groceries with $120 that I could when Trump was in office. It's night and day for me.
Mommy still buys his groceries
I am 80 years old and had to deal with real inflation under Carter.
Well then, you should know, the worst President ever then carter was Barack's first two terms, followed up by his third Term
FDR was the worst. Then Wilson. Then LBJ. Then Obama. Then Truman. Then maybe Carter.
Don't forget about Hamilton.
Lol those are my bottom 3 to a T. I never agreed with the "consensus" of Buchanan being the worst, simply because of what he didn't do, i.e. magically prevent the Civil War. A President who does nothing is still better than a President who intentionally inflicts everlasting damage onto the nation like those three.
Form an actual sentence before you click save
Oh thank fuck, you’ll be dead soon.
George Floyd is actually Geralts prettiest daughter!
https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/16b6DebiS5/doxxing-geralt-of-rivia-1s-prett/c
The real picture, revealed to me in a nightmare!
Honestly my grocery bill has been mostly constant. All rough estimates of now vs what I remember them being 5 years ago so a bit fuzzy, but these are prices I pay now.
Milk is about $5/gallon, was $4.50
Eggs are back to $1/dozen on sale but I tend to pay $2 for the fancy ones, back to what they used to be
Ground beef is $4/lb, was $3/lb
Tbone is $7/lb, was $6/lb
Ham is $1.29/lb was $0.99/lb Celery is $3 / bunch, was $2
Carrots are $1 / lb, was $1
Fish is a terrible protein source, terrible bang for your buck. Weird cuts of beef that have some absurd price tag. Meanwhile tenderloin, tbone, ribeye, london broil, tri-tip roast, chuck roast, all great meats and still very affordable.
First you say your grocery bill has been "mostly constant." then you cite 5/6 items that have gone up. Oh, and by the way, in my area at least, things have gone up much more than that.
Gone up over 5 years. Not exactly a stellar rate.
There was a huge spike in 2021 but prices seem to have come down from that high. Everything else is way more expensive though.
Where do you get T-bines for $7 a pound???? I'm paying $10 for top sirloin and T-bones are closer to $25 a lb. Ground beef is $6.
I have to use hundred dollar bills the way I used to use 5 dollar bills. So what? Inflation isnt an abitrary measurement from some time in the past - its annualized. And in the past 6 months prices havent budged.
If you died tomorrow, no one would do anything but celebrate.
Did you know that AWyattmann drew a cartoon of Geralt in 1995?
https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/16aTjQFOCY/1995-awyattmann-drawing-of-geral/c
He really has changed since then... for the worst!
Bullshit!
His witcher senses be broken.
Nope.
Bread and meat and many other items have doubled since Biden stole the election but I guess everything is ok now that it hasn't continued to go up in a few months? I'll remind myself when I'm going broke at the store again that everything is going really well. Or when I get gas. Or when I attempt to go out to eat at a restaurant and see those marked up prices.
Everything is fine.
So since January 2021, and it's September 2023. And inflation is annualized. So you are using numbers that have nothing to do with the claim at hand
That is what inflation is.
Inflation is that ever increasing air in your skull
This is a very weak troll. Please do better.
It is truth, you just dont like that it is inconvenient
Well around 6 months ago there was a sharp drop for around 3-4 weeks for almost all food traded on the CME, since then it's been rising faster than in 2021-2022.
I seriously feel like the grocery prices are fake news. Every time I walk into a grocery store shopping the outer aisle I have to take out a mortgage.
They've doubled or more in many cases since Biden stolen the election. But this faggot in the thread is like "blah blah they haven't budged in six months" so i guess everything is fine
Inflation is in aggregate not about outliers. That is absolutely meaningless.
Thanks for admitting your cherry-picked outlier numbers are meaningless.
Who fucking cares? The point is that biden has made things way worse. You're the only one arguing that point, nobody cares about aggregate annualized bullshit, we care what the dollar amount is that we're getting fucked by every time we have to buy groceries. If someone said the sky is blue you'd come in and say 'well actually sometimes it's not blue' nobody cares!
I feel bad for the Grocerys, they must be hurting having to sell stuff at such high prices.
Honestly my grocery bill has been mostly constant. All rough estimates of now vs what I remember them being 5 years ago so a bit fuzzy, but these are prices I pay now.
Milk is about $5/gallon, was $4.50 Eggs are back to $1/dozen on sale but I tend to pay $2 for the fancy ones, back to what they used to be Ground beef is $4/lb, was $3/lb Tbone is $7/lb, was $6/lb Ham is $1.29/lb was $0.99/lb Celery is $3 / bunch, was $2 Carrots are $1 / lb, was $1
Fish is a terrible protein source, terrible bang for your buck. Weird cuts of beef that have some absurd price tag. Meanwhile tenderloin, tbone, ribeye, london broil, tri-tip roast, chuck roast, all great meats and still very affordable.
Stop buying processed garbage. Raw food is better for you and way cheaper!
That's all I buy and my grocery bill has doubled. I feed a family and pets and man are they tired of chicken.
Chicken is garbage. It's barely a step up from rice as a filler to stretch your food. Eggs are even better than chicken. But again as a protein supplement and not a main protein source. I might get a rotisserie chicken because they're stupid cheap but otherwise I rarely eat chicken.
Meanwhile pork is still cheap and tasty. I'll take a big roast, cook it for 4 hours with no spices, feed half to the pets, then add spices and cook for 4 more hours.
These figures are off. Groceries rose way more than 11.8% for example. Real wages decreased way more than 1.1%.
Give some examples of how groceries have risen way more than 11.8% in the past year
Meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit, anything healthy really is up on average 40%.
It's the slop, bugs, fake meat and fake food in general that hasn't increased in value. Your 11.8% is a irrelevant average because no sane person should eat trash.
Egg prices have gone down 60% in the past year you fucking liar
Prove it then, were can I find a dozen large eggs for less than $2. Where does a dozen large eggs cost only $0.80?
Eggs were 5 dollars a dozen this time last year, now they are a 1.80
If you increase the price of something by 300% and then decrease it by 60% you are still more expensive than where you started you dumb fuck.
Inflation is annualized
Never more than $2/dozen were I'm at, used to be $1/dozen.
Then you didn't buy eggs in September 2022
Wrong.
I work in Big Sugar Water, you're about to see five bucks a two liter.
Maybe more people will stop drinking that poison, then.
Not when your taxes are buying it for them.
Correction, maybe more productive people will stop drinking that poison. Go ahead and give extra to the multigenerational welfare parasites.
Ask mommy. She clearly buys your groceries.
I am 80 years old
C'mon man!
Groceries 12%. Lol! Fries are my metric. We're $1.79 a bag. Now $3.49. For plain old French fries. What a planned, intentional catastrophe because he knows he lost and wants to punish MAGA.
Who wants to bet this gets fact checked on facebook?
It's already being "fact checked" ITT.
11.8% for groceries? Try 50% or more since Biden
I'm sorry whats a migrant? You mean a fucking criminal invader?
30 year is around 7.70 %.
Let's not say "under Biden"... To be more accurate we should say "under democrats" because everyone knows all he does is rubber stamp policies coming from the democrat establishment.
Every democrat politician has to own his record because we know these are the exact same policies we would get if any democrat were in office.
Bidenflation Sucks!
Inflation and illegals have fake numbers.
my electricity rose 100% and my groceries 40%
Some of those numbers are WAY off. Inflation is far higher. Grocery increases are far higher. Electricity costs are far higher. Mortgage rates are far higher.
Those look like numbers from PedoJoe's first year.
Everything was great under Trump.
Do it for election day. The futures all went to shit when the election was stolen.
but Trump is a racist... CNN says so.
Too many illegals aliens vs way too many illegal aliens.
Yes but decency in the White House is way up!
Cool. Now do last day #s before CoViD BS.
Mortgage rates are running about 7.55% right now. We’re back to the late 90s.
But the box on the wall was celebrating inflation not increasing in a year
Reporting inflation rates by month is a problem.
Gas $3.46 ???? Who the fuck are you kidding?
30 year mortgage is over 7.5 on average now…
Duh look at that's big Numbers our boy Biden is putting up. This is the kind of leaders we need.
Gas $3.46? I wish. $4.09 in Minneapolis.
Groceries are double what they cost a few years ago. I have a picture of a free range organic chicken that I bought in 2020 for $8.50. I have another picture of a regular factory farmed chicken (all that is now available so that's what I buy) in 2023 for $13.50. Just take pictures of whole chickens every 6 months if you want to see food costs in real time.
Wars increased by over 100%
The earnings growth is what is most noticeable to me.
I was stuck with retail and food service from 2008 - 2016, I got out of the navy in 2008. Basically stuck paycheck to paycheck for that time and nobody was interested in my resume. Granted I could have done a lot better with my money back then, I was still stuck in a low income situation.
Then trump came along and my resume started getting hits and I got into manufacturing and got moved, starting in june the first year but still clearing 60k in 60 months.
Having been poor for so long I kep my living poor habits and was able to save/invest a lot, buying a house at the bottom of interest rates.
I started at $26/hr and by 2020 I was making $39/hr. My spending stayed the same, with a few luxuries here and there, so all I really noticed with terms of money was my investments and my paychecks growing as I changed jobs and got raises.
With covid and all that BS as well, in 2021 the job market started to go to shit. Recruiters were hitting me up for $22-26/hr with my experience, a significant paycut.
The job I decided to take took negotiations to get to $40/hr and it has a good schedule. Had things gone as they were going under Trump, I'd be making closer to $50/hr.... or I would've been finished with my homestead and plenty of investments/infrastructure to fully disappear in comfort in 2022.
Low interest rates were a double edged sword. They were too low too long without any measures to combat the investor covid boom. Low interest rates are great and certainly help home buyers get in the door and accumulate wealth faster. But they also encouraged investors collecting 'doors'. The covid boom would have been alot less painful without what 30% reported number of home sales going to investors. That number does not include those that took a conventional loan for an investment property or leveraged their existing homes to pay cash on another. I saw Entry level homes in my city being scooped up by LLCs or people from out of state and even out of the country. If the home was under 400k it was going to turn a profit and was highly sought after. So prospective home buyers had to either lose bid after bid or bid far higher and have cash on hand.
How to prevent this? Local governments have a budget based on property taxes. Adjust it so that primary homes pay less and investor properties pay significantly more. Either its still profitable or they sell someone who will owner occupy. As its local, then every city/county can determine their own needs as something like a college town would actually need more rentals.
Go repeat treasonous propaganda somewhere else.
There is no acceptable level of interest. You’re claiming foreign cultural forcings are irrelevant and natural and therefore economic health should be compromised to cater to them.
Make it illegal for foreigners to own property in your nation. Problem solved.
Which are unconstitutional.
How about zero property tax for place of residence and only charge it on secondary properties.
muh constitution lol
Thanks for publicly confirming you don’t belong here.
*gasp* better call the authorities!!!1