Inflation?.

Was at WalMart last night and my wife wanted a soda on the way out. So we went back into the entrance to grab her a drink, she had exactly $.50 for a can? Now the machines say $.75!!! No dice.
Well of course EVERYTHING is way up if you do the shopping around your home.
81 million people voted for this? Yeah, Ok.
I just wanted to bitch a little.

I have noticed it with the price of potato chips. I don't often purchase them so when they go up, I see it.

The demand is outpacing the supply. The trucking industry is short drivers, by 25-30%. Unfortunately everything is being blamed on covid. Yet, those who sat on their ass, collecting both state and federal UI benefits. Have now decided, since some states shut off the flowing .gov teat. To sue the states, instead of getting off their ass and going to work.

Throw in the shortage of employees, same deal with UI benefits. Knowing they have business over a barrel , have decided to not return unless the employer meets their salary demands.



Sadly those who believed the government should take care of the populace, have won.

as I said before since late 2019 that we need to raise rate.
Paul volcker would have.
Janet and Jerome (JnJ) see it as short run stimulus artificial price hike from demand shift and supply shortage from bottleneck, but this is brewing for something big and nasty.

Bought Gold at $330 and Silver at $6.65. I don't have enough.
Pointing fingers at this stage of the game is a waste of calories.

If we go to war with China, there will be shortages again. I remember last year, milk shelves empty, no meat, or toiletries. Now, there is almost no ammo or guns at Walmart. I have noticed a lot of my neighbors have sheep, goats, calves, etc. Zoning has stopped enforcement and growth is phenomenal. I paid $130K for a brand new house on an acre in 2006. Valued now at over $300K. New houses are popping up everywhere. Almost all buyers are from out of state. New pick up trucks can now cost almost $90K. I am living like the war has already started...

We won't go to war with China in the way you're thinking.

We're already at war though, and losing it. They can influence our free press, we can't influence theirs. Coupled with more espionage, more cyberattacks, RU and CH have invested heavily in causing division and destabilizing our country. And they are finally succeeding.

They aren't going to fight on a front where they can lose, when they are already winning. Patience saves their resources as we either fall apart into a manipulated civil catastrophe or just fade away into a nation state of homelessness, debt, and "UBI" to placate morons.

0% chance of war, because our adversaries are not stupid.

We're getting equalized with the megacities.

We have deployed F-22's for the first time ever. If Russia can annex Crimea, I'm sure China can annex Taiwan. The US government can't even secure its' own Capitol for FFS. I wouldn't be surprised if Taiwan is already infested with sleeper agents from the PLA. We spent almost 7 trillion dollars trying to secure Afghanistan. It was a big failure. I think the only way to defend Taiwan is the nuclear option in the straits. Just give them the bomb. Europe was loaded with nukes during the Cold War. All NATO countries were nuclear capable even if they didn't have them nationally. They could be loaned out.
If this area turned into a shooting match, you can expect prices of goods to go through the roof. And ration books.

……..I was just bitching about the cost of a Sprite for the wife.