I am the shopper for the house. I know prices from week to week, record them and compare. For inflation. Well today my hat blew off! A container of Tide at Stop and Shop was $18. A month ago it was $12! That is 50% price increase a month or more than 600% a year. Recall Weimar Germany.
The economy is the key driver in this election. Soap, meat, gasoline (if you can still be allowed to buy it), clothes, etc is increasing at a phenomenal rate. These are the things normal people consume. CATV increases at 12% pa. Local train service 25% pa.
It will be interesting to see if people really vote their pocket book, if they still have one!
After some thought I concluded this is a strategy to use less energy. If one cannot afford to wash clothes, then one cannot use energy in the washer, in the hot water heater, in the dryer, etc. Furthermore, clothes are now dirty, smelly, and makes for anti-social environment. Thus person to person communications is reduced and reliance is increased in propaganda type social media. Control is increased. Just a thought.
UPDATE: Yikes it is now at $22 per container! The price has jumped another $4 in just two days! Welcome to Weimar folks, get the wheel barrows out!
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