I don't know about you people, but I don't pay anywhere near those prices. I load up when on sale and nibble down the stocks till the next sale. tomatoes .69 chips 2.50 coffee 1.80 peanut butter .99 sugar .45 oj .99 1/2 gal lettuce .79 head oranges .59 bananas .45 apples .39 ice cream 3.00 breyers butter 1.50 milk 2% 1.99 eggs xl .89 chicken .89 bacon 1.99 grnd beef 80% 1.99 bakery bread .99 cheap bread .79
The scam of under reporting inflation worked well in the good ol' days, but it gets much harder to hide with time thanks to compounding. The chinese are the only idiots dumb enough to buy our negative real return bonds. so much so that it's screwing up risk premiums for the rest of the market.