the real inflation rate is the change in the price of a First Class US stamp.
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Inflation - Prices are going up!
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Make a point that relates or end up on ignore. I have zero tolerance for personal attacks only. Criticize my point, I have zero issues to be criticized or contradicted by facts I was not aware of. Bring it on and let's discuss.
I can start if it helps you. Last time I checked cable TV contracts could be had for 50 to 60 usd a few years ago. Today you pay 10 bucks for Netflix and have lots of change left to get a Disney subscription as well. Mobile phone? Many people I know paid around 40 to 50 a month in the greater NYC area in 2006 when I studied there. Today the same 4G contracts cost 25-30. McDonald's, perhaps one of the best price indicators because of the standardized menu, has not upped its prices much in 15 years. A big Mac menu in San Francisco (San Rafael to be precise) cost the same a few months ago than in 2003 when I was there and remembered the price as it was back then the most expensive outlet in the country. Have not seen prices for fresh produce or meat increase either. It's called competition.
Where do you live that we seem to be on different pages?
I can start if it helps you. Last time I checked cable TV contracts could be had for 50 to 60 usd a few years ago. Today you pay 10 bucks for Netflix and have lots of change left to get a Disney subscription as well. Mobile phone? Many people I know paid around 40 to 50 a month in the greater NYC area in 2006 when I studied there. Today the same 4G contracts cost 25-30. McDonald's, perhaps one of the best price indicators because of the standardized menu, has not upped its prices much in 15 years. A big Mac menu in San Francisco (San Rafael to be precise) cost the same a few months ago than in 2003 when I was there and remembered the price as it was back then the most expensive outlet in the country. Have not seen prices for fresh produce or meat increase either. It's called competition.
Where do you live that we seem to be on different pages?
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Disagree, you are citing the price of a product that is controlled by a monopoly that runs incredibly inefficient operations. Wait until drones are mass-produced to deliver mail and you see Mail dropping back down to single cents a letter.
Many people worry about small ticket items and are dealing in very irresponsible ways with costly items. The annual Las Vegas trip is a must but the rest of the year they try to cut down on Starbucks. Funny people.
You make personal attacks but you can't handle personal attacks. People like that are a dime a dozen.
Incorrect. I always add a point that relates to the topic at hand. He did not. Big difference. Care to make a point Re your postal stamps?
Come visit in Florida. For $12 we can go to a top notch Indian food buffet. My treat
Flannigans in Coconut grove. $2.98 for my Draft Fat Tire beer during 4-7 and then 7-5am. Drive to south beach $15-$20 for a beer lol.
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100% right and cant blame the FED for that increase ''haircut ''LOL
, That also sounds like an overpriced franchise price/Fantastic Sams?? Still most men dont get hair cuts very often but women love to get it styled.......................................AND gasoline is going down, free food/cheap from a garden/free eggs from hens. SO, not so much inflation , but stocks are nicely uptrending; except sell in MAY-hey.
BY the way most women cut hair better than men; as kid i got my hair cut @ a barber with bro. That male barber used to take a straight razor + shave behind my ears-which i hated. Amazing that clown never cut me with that razor LOL.
And no doubt Paul Tudor Jones gets cheap food+ wild life food from his farm-most likely!![Delayed edit; Whole Foods may take your whole check ;but that is personal trend not national trend . And i saw some cheap canned road kill @ the lumber yard LOL-true]]