Accordingly to my relatives, friends, and retired military buddies... No food shortages in Idaho, Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, and North Carolina. Yet, there have been empty shelves (now full again) of electronics. In contrast, the cost of food and goods has increased but we're Americans...we know how to get by to save money. Examples: A cousin stop eating out / ordering food from restaurants Friend...ended his multiple magazine subscriptions and insane weekly car wash/full cleaning at some local car wash place. He now hand washes his own car plus vacuuming it in his driveway. Brother (a doctor), no longer buys his groceries at the slick expensive place in town...he now buys his groceries from the discount grocery store. Another brother (EMT), he canceled his expensive gym membership...most of the time it was closed during this Pandemic. My point, if you have money, you can easily get rid of the excess luxuries in your life when foods and consumer goods become too expensive due to extraordinary rising inflation costs. In contrast, the poor have much fewer options. Thus, they typically are hit the hardest than any social-economic group in high inflation economy. Yet, the few that are poor...you'll see a huge increase in robberies, store theft and even breaking into cargo containers on "moving trains" to steal boxes of goods being shipped by FedEs, UPS, and any one else in the shipping business. My youngest wanted an Xbox series X...the stores did not have it and they didn't have it available online. We had to wait 2 1/2 weeks before we could order it online. Today, a few weeks after Christmas...stores have crates stacked up with Xbox consoles...suddenly they can't get rid of them. By the way, Americans and Canadians that carry too much debt...will be hurt the most when interest rates begin to rise in comparison to rising food costs. People have too much debt and that's the fault of their own...not the government. I remember a thread I started about being debt-free a year or so before the Pandemic and how important it becomes in times of economic crisis to be debt-free. I was amazed at all the people that showed up to say how bad being debt-free was and how impossible it was (e.g. no mortgage, no car payments, credit cards paid off, putting money aside for kids college without student loan debt to ensure they don't have debts when they begin life on their own, et cetera). I feel sorry for politics because people will naturally blame the government for their inability to manage things that are their responsibility (e.g. refusing to downsize, carrying more credit card debt). Democrats will get the blame...possibly setting up a big loss in the mid-terms. The Republicans will not be able to fix problems that typically are the responsibility of the people...setting up a big loss in the next Presidential election. Last of all, why are so-called traders bitching ? We are individuals that take money and then make more money...right ? Edit: Food shortages in Kentucky @ https://www.whas11.com/article/news...tems/417-b46d4477-9fcd-4863-a23b-879d2abfa430 They seem to be blaming it on "staff shortages" and there's still major slow downs in the supply/demand, winter weather and lack of truck drivers. Canada now requiring truck drivers to be vaccinated...too many not vaccinated and calling in sick from Covid (most likely Omicron) illnesses. Strangely, due to lack of truckers because of illnesses...they fault hard against the pending mandates. I blame truckers for being complete idiots because we have a supply/demand problem because they were not vaccinated and getting sick. Now the vaccine mandates have arrived...truckers are less sick and the supply chain problems have started improving again but truckers are bitching about the mandates. wrbtrader
Americans are just too fat anyway, a bit of the Maduro diet will save lives. Panicking, not over missing a meal but not being able to afford the exact cut of steak.. To be fair if I were poor on a pension like Wildchild I'd be concerned. I just put things in baskets and pay, the wife sometimes looks at receipts and says 'how much!?' like yesterday when chicken was 30 percent higher than normal. Anyway, insane inflation is all over the world now.
I don't see empty shelves here but I do see some high prices. A nice ribeye here is close to $30 and filet mignon close to $40. I'm pretty good with pan sauces so I can make do with nice top sirloin cuts that are still around $10. Good red lean beef.
Yeah, I don't think people remember that inflation problems are globally and it actually started before the Pandemic...its now catching up to the United States and Canada. Also, the United States has too high of an Obesity Prevalence rating that's sitting around (pun intended) with 36.2%, Canada sitting around 29.4% and France sitting around 21.6%. https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/ Most of the top 30 countries in Obesity Prevalence have been hit hard by Covid because there's a direct connection between Covid to Obesity, Social-Economic status, and an un-healthy society (physically and mentally). wrbtrader
Fat people are not going to eat less because of the high prices. They are going to consume worse food. You are just trying to defend President Brandon, it was your shameful choice and it is your shameful defense now.
This whole thread is like saying "the house is on fire, so use fewer rooms". The correct question is why is the house on fire, and how to fix it. Here, Biden and socialist Democrats caused the inflation and other problems. The fix is, vote the dumbass Democrats out of power and get back to small government and lower taxes and lower crime.... vote GOP. The midterm red wave will be enjoyable to see. Polls show most Americans disapprove of the current Biden Kamala Pelosi Bernie clusterfuck. Vote GOP. #redwave
The house is not on fire, the shelves are not empty the markets are not collapsing. You need to get some male hormone replacement therapy Ken, you have the hysteria. The only red wave is your apparently period moods. Inflation is global, it will take a while to work out. You are such a muppet.
I think its time to start a thread asking anybody who has been a customer of Ken what the fuck he was actually selling? Perhaps a class action demanding a refund. I mean, he has twice, probably more come in screechy about "market collapse" like he never looked at a chart in his life and just seems so immature. Is the guy just having a breakdown? Biden is not doing stellar under the weight of Trump created problems but if JHC himself had returned to Earth and kissed him during the state of the Union, they both would be demonised for the mid terms. Biden is still and successfully, not being Trump. That's all most people want.