I cannot believe the jump in prices at the market in just the last month...

[hang a left]

for the things I normally buy. There are some good finds on produce but everything else like milk, eggs, cheese, ect... has all jumped by at least 20% in the past 30 days.

[dipsydoodle]

1. It's called inflation

all you need to do is get used to it.

[Jack Sprat]

3. yep, but the Fed lowered the prime rate again

which is the polar opposite of how inflation is supposed to be treated. All the old economic rules have been changed. What will be the ultimate result? Nobody knows.

[dipsydoodle]

5. One of the greatest single causes

of inflation in the UK in early seventies was the simple changeover to decimalised currency - there were no significant changes in interest rates here at that time.

There are a number of issues for which economic models simply do not account. The rate of increase of you money suppply, which is no longer published , is enough to spook anything you could possibly imagine.

[Deja Q]

2. Increase in demand from China and India...

Mind you, if everybody complains about their product quality and they're building middle classes, in theory our quality should be keeping us a step or two ahead.

:shrug:

[VP505]

4. I have also

noticed my weekly grocery shopping trip is costing me noticeably more. Produce will jump as things go out of season also.

[Bitwit1234]

6. I buy the half gallon of coffeemate

It went from 2.68 to 2.98 back to 2.69 and now back up to 2.98. It doesn't have milk in it.