Why the cost increase?

Thats life don't cry.

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Millercarbon ... You are one of the very few people I've met who understands the money issue.

Frank

Thanks. Unfortunately we now apparently live in a world where even indisputable facts are deemed too controversial for publication. The first post explained rising prices and was removed. Why?

They call it QE, quantitative easing, to obscure the fact they are printing trillions of dollars from nothing. No one studies this, so no one understands that it is counterfeit currency not even really money. But they are duped into thinking real money like bitcoin and gold are not. Hardly anyone even understands enough Econ 101 to know that any time you increase the supply of a good you decrease its value.

Of course it costs more dollars to buy stuff. They are worth so much less. Just the way it goes

Rising prices do not all rise uniformly nor smoothly across the board. This confuses people, but it makes perfect sense. Some things and some people like to buy on sale. Others like to buy when they see the price going up. Lots only buy after prices have been going up and up and up a long time. 

This happens with all kinds of things. This tendency can be exaggerated by the way things are priced.

Lumber and oil for example are priced on commodities exchanges where traders buy and sell contracts for future delivery. When they see a surge in building permits they predict a surge in lumber demand and bid up futures contract prices. 

This all sounds rather academic and out of touch, and it would be, except that people closer to the end user see this and react. I saw a YT video where a builder bought all the lumber he would need for a house he was building. Because he had to honor his bid, and with rising prices the only way is to buy it all now. So all that lumber came off the market, months before it was needed, exacerbating the price squeeze.

This is one example but this same thing ripples across the entire economy. The volatility is not all one direction either. The futures contracts on crude oil were so messed up that at one point crude was trading for negative dollars. That's right, you had to pay to get rid of your crude. Well there was a glut, to the point there was nowhere even to store it, and when you are paying $150k/day to keep a supertanker at anchor just to store your oil that's the way it goes.

What gets me is every single one of these things I just mentioned is absolutely true and verfiable. If it makes anyone uncomfortable to read the truth here's one last bit of advice: stop reading my posts.  https://youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk?t=44

The simple fact is they are massively devaluing the money in your pocket. The poor get poorer.
It's less prices going up as it's the dough they let you have is yeastless manna.

"the dough they let you have is yeastless manna"


No you just have to invest it wisely to see it rise. It’s the only way to get ahead. All part of the game. Everybody play the game! The game of life.


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