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How hard is inflation going to hit, or has hit?

Still on the up swing šŸ™ you nailed it!


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Thats a 23lb piece of meat. That $17.99/lb price at Costco has been the norm for many years here for Prime. If that was $28/lb, now you have my attention.
 
Still on the up swing šŸ™ you nailed it!


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Its nice to be right, but it still hurts when you're betting on the collapse of the world reserve currency.

Since I've got my minute on the soapbox, I think physical silver is a steal at $29oz in hand, and a fella oughtta have an IBC tote full of diesel fuel, even at $3.85gal. Yes, oil is renewable and damn near free, but oil/ money/ math nerds estimate a barrel of oil to contain the equivalent of something like 2-12 years worth of manpower, I could see it going up more before we burn it all to the ground.

Storable protein
Diesel fuel
Silver
Tools
Guns and ammo
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I love the fact that they accept crypto
Shrugs. They accept it as trade today, they can verify market value of both "assets" today, so they accept trade. The lights are still on, the store shelves are still 65% full at only 23%inflation and portion sizes are a good 83% of what they were, most cities aren't on fire, most fuel pumps have fuel at only 170% of last year prices, the music still plays on the tilting deck of the titanic.

Today, Precious metals and tangible assets are boring as fuck. That's when I prefer to accrue things.


Fwiw maybe 3 months ago the moves in precious metals were so wild that the big dealers shut down, refusing to sell them in any currency unit the market settled and values could be established.
 
JP Morgan also got caught manipulating those markets recently and I assume they havenā€™t stopped. At some point precious metals is going to spike and youā€™ll be sitting in a good spot.
That's the plan, I see cheap physical silver as the most undervalued asset on the planet, the byproduct of a massive fraud on wall street and central banking, when the panic starts, that train will leave the station forever.

It's like when the mob ran Vegas, they lost money on $2 buffets so you'd come in and they could launder money on the casino floor. If a common man came for cheap dinner, a free drink and left, he won against the house, but that's gone now
 
The magic fix all is more money printingā€¦

Itā€™s been working for quite some time now and they have ran out of options.

Itā€™s a globalized economy now and Austrian economics would wreck the world.
 
"Excluding food, energy and trade services prices rose 0.7% for the month, putting core PPI at 6.9%, also the largest gain on record. "

Gov't: we don't include the stuff that increases fastest in our calculations... :shaking:


The method for calculating inflation keeps changing to disguise the problem.

 
It's like when the mob ran Vegas, they lost money on $2 buffets so you'd come in and they could launder money on the casino floor. If a common man came for cheap dinner, a free drink and left, he won against the house, but that's gone now

I wondered what changed between then and now. My folks took my sister and I on a trip to Vegas in 1996 maybe. Everywhere you turned there were all you could eat buffets! We spent a few days there stuffing our faces and checking out the sights. My folks threw a few bucks into some slot machines, but i guarantee that was one of the cheapest trips to Vegas ever!

At one of the breakfast buffets my old man loaded up an entire plate with bacon. We were definitely out of our element. :lmao:
 
The method for calculating inflation keeps changing to disguise the problem.


Of course it is, but even with it being covered up as much as possible, the numbers are still not good at all.

Just imagine how bad they really are.

Things are going to crash hard if we continue down this same path that we've been on. :shaking:
 
Thats a 23lb piece of meat. That $17.99/lb price at Costco has been the norm for many years here for Prime. If that was $28/lb, now you have my attention.
I have a picture of a prime from 2018 from Costco, $15.99/lb. So yeah, its gone up a bit, but not a whole lot.
 
Of course it is, but even with it being covered up as much as possible, the numbers are still not good at all.

Just imagine how bad they really are.

Things are going to crash hard if we continue down this same path that we've been on. :shaking:
Agreed. Inflation calcs are really a review mirror thing. You can determine how bad it was, but not how bad it is or will be. Usually it is worse than anyone projects at the moment.
 
"Excluding food, energy and trade services prices rose 0.7% for the month, putting core PPI at 6.9%, also the largest gain on record. "

Gov't: we don't include the stuff that increases fastest in our calculations... :shaking:
It is dumb to exclude stuff. We all still have to pay for that stuff. I can't skip eating for a month and not put gas in my car. Morons.
 
I told you bitches we've not seen shit yet. It's been one year and look where we are. I fear within the next 3 the other shoe will drop. Biden is crying to other countries and they are laughing at him and flipping the US the finger wither the media acknowledges it or not. We have become the laughing stock. Russia will take Ukraine and China will take Taiwan. It's going to be interesting to see which way Japan goes. I really don't see much more than saber rattling in the Koreas. Europe will be in the dark also.

Stock your pantry my friends. It's going to get really bumpy.....

The only two things I owe on is my truck and the wife's car. Fuck it, I'm paying them off this month. So as long as I can eat and keep the lights on, we'll be fine. It won't be pleasant...but I will manage.

:beer: to those I see on the other side.....
 
Stock your pantry my friends. It's going to get really bumpy.....
I've been told this going on two years now. There are certainly waves, but its been no wheres near what people have tried to panic about.
 
I've been told this going on two years now. There are certainly waves, but its been no wheres near what people have tried to panic about.
think of it this way...

in some senses, stocking up on food is a hedge. Why pay $10 tomorrow for what you can pay $7 for today... and keep for a year?

Read a book one time that explained the math of it. will have to dig that up again.
 
I've been told this going on two years now. There are certainly waves, but its been no where near what people have tried to panic about.
I fall in this camp. Yes, it sucks, but i think its going to be a 2-3 class crash and impact. Those with decent jobs /households at 85k + /yr will survive and be OK. Possibly get a little tighter in the pocketbook but not problematic. Then those below that point who are going to struggle BIG TIME as they cant afford to drive, eat, pay rent etc. Then there will be those at 200k + household who dont notice at all.

That's no reason not for everyone to make sure they have enough to eat if the stores are bare due to rampant inflation.
 
think of it this way...

in some senses, stocking up on food is a hedge. Why pay $10 tomorrow for what you can pay $7 for today... and keep for a year?

Read a book one time that explained the math of it. will have to dig that up again.
Oh, I do all over that. I've got three freezers in the basement. Two are stocked full. The third is about half. I buy 40 cans at a time of veggies. Drumsticks on sale for 79 cents a pound? I'll but 15 packages. Bags of rice. I'm confident I could roll out six months without groceries. Closer to a year with rationing.
 
Oh, I do all over that. I've got three freezers in the basement. Two are stocked full. The third is about half. I buy 40 cans at a time of veggies. Drumsticks on sale for 79 cents a pound? I'll but 15 packages. Bags of rice. I'm confident I could roll out six months without groceries. Closer to a year with rationing.
address, please? :flipoff2:
 
I've been told this going on two years now. There are certainly waves, but its been no wheres near what people have tried to panic about.
2 years now? Look where we were a year ago compared to today. If the trend continues its going to get real bad.

I can remember back in 70's pushing dad's truck to the gas pump for the 5gal ration and then going to the back of the line and starting over. Things were rough then...and I see it playing out again. This time, I'm not going hungry.

Believe what you like...
 
I fall in this camp. Yes, it sucks, but i think its going to be a 2-3 class crash and impact. Those with decent jobs /households at 85k + /yr will survive and be OK. Possibly get a little tighter in the pocketbook but not problematic. Then those below that point who are going to struggle BIG TIME as they cant afford to drive, eat, pay rent etc. Then there will be those at 200k + household who dont notice at all.

That's no reason not for everyone to make sure they have enough to eat if the stores are bare due to rampant inflation.
Pretty much, yawp. I have means to make money. I've got tenants. They pay on time every month. Sure, the rent is $200 cheaper than the other places on the road, but I'm not playing that game. I find myself not buying new PC games every week, or throwing parts at the motorcycles. Usually I'll bike one motorcycle a year and rotate out another, but I kept everything this year. That sort of thing. So yea, I've cut back but like everything else, in Internet land, its the end of the world and we're all doomed.
 
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