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No Exit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 08:42 AM Original message |
Liar, Liar, Economy on Fire |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. the cost of diet dr pepper went up 10 cents on Jan 1 |
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BushOut06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 08:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Have you seen the price of ice cream lately? |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 10:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I stopped buying my favorite ice creams last summer. They're |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 10:36 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. A new low-fat flavor (Edys special whipped whatever) rose |
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No Exit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 01:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Hey, that's an interesting handle. Are you from Florida? |
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No Exit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 01:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Okay. Dammit. OKAY. That does it!!!! Grab your pitchforks, fellow peasants |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. call it the Enron loophole |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 10:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. exclude energy and food - LOL! |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 10:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. And people blindly believe it too. |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. Most of the mega-rich inherited their wealth. (think Paris Hilton, |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. Home base |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. You'll never get the truth about anything, including the economy, from.... |
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Ksec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-03-06 04:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
28. Ditto/ |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
11. Yeah, it's crazy. |
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OnionPatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
14. You'd have to be continuously drunk or stoned not to |
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wiggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
15. Inflation |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 04:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. well, technically it is NOT inflation unless the |
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No Exit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 08:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Maybe we should just call it profiteering, or price-gouging. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-03-06 04:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. In a nutshell: FUEL |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
16. "This sounds more like an inflation index for investors not consumers!" |
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BamaGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
19. One of the things guaranteed to piss me off |
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AllieB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 09:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. My grocery bill has doubled also |
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BamaGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-03-06 03:47 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Sucks doesn't it? |
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AllieB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 09:30 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. No, I'm in the Northeast |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-03-06 03:57 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. It cost $4.99 a lb for shelled walnuts...I nearly fell over... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. Could you call it supply side inflation? I mean the interest |
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PWRinNY (456 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
22. It's disgusting |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-02-06 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. Sure, no inflation |
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tedzbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-03-06 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
26. Food and energy hits the middle class hard while core components... |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
30. There Are Other Inflation Parameters |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
31. Quite frankly government reporting on the economy is a shell game |
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