thestatedtruth.com | November 13, 2011
Excuse us, but… didn’t the government just say a week or so ago that there wasn’t much to worry about with inflation? Um, Yep…that’s what they said. Liar Liar Pants On Fire! The cost of a Thanksgiving dinner in the U.S. will jump 13 percent this year, the biggest gain in two decades, as prices rose […]
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Tags: inflation, Thanksgiving Dinner, Thanksgiving Food Costs Rise, Turkey Costs Rise
thestatedtruth.com | June 28, 2011
From MarketWatch.com …….Yep, PIMCO, the same one that Bill Gross founded.  So PIMCO says we have inflation, Jim Rogers says we have inflation and Lunch Pale Jack says we got inflation…but the U.S. Federal Reserve says pay attention everyone…the kind of inflation you all are looking at doesn’t count! Ok, that explains it! – Inflation set […]
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Tags: inflation, No Inflation
thestatedtruth.com | May 27, 2011
There will be riots around the world if bad weather continues to dilute food crops.  This has the potential to be a world wide problem as spring turns to summer. The realization will come by fall if farm harvests turn to dust in the wind ! So, what happens if we have a decent harvest?….Aah then consider us to be lucky and food inflation may be […]
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Tags: Agriculture, Crops, Farmers, Food, Harvest, inflation
thestatedtruth.com | May 26, 2011
Here are some of his key points….Policymakers have embraced initiatives designed to boost asset prices, divorcing them from economic fundamentals.  The impact on Main Street has fallen well short of expectations. Interest rates have been repressed. The dollar has also seriously weakened. The net effect has been a double edged sword. “Good†asset price inflation has […]
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Tags: Constructive Paranoia, El-Erian, inflation, PIMCO
thestatedtruth.com | April 8, 2011
It’s here and now folks, the widening gap between declining incomes and higher costs has been filled with borrowed money. Now that borrowing has reached its limit,  the consumer economy is devolving. Here is what it means. The cost structure of the entire U.S. economy has bloated to unsustainable levels. Here’s the basic mechanism: when money […]
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Tags: Consumer Economy, Declining Incomes, Higher Costs, inflation, Stagflation
thestatedtruth.com | February 17, 2011
Uh, Ok Chief…..What ever you say. Here’s a list of things that are not, repeat…are not a problem.  Our math must be a little sideways though, because just looking at the figures below seem to indicate that we (currently) look to have a BIG problem.   January 2009 TODAY % chg Source Avg. […]
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Tags: inflation
thestatedtruth.com | February 11, 2011
Look at the chart below, who is that at the far end with the smallest food component percentage in the overall CPI….Yep, good old Uncle Sam. Here we go again, looks like the same dumb bozos that put together our budget deficits, must have designed the current CPI formula! Math 101 should be a requirement for […]
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Tags: CPI, Food Inflation, inflation
thestatedtruth.com | October 26, 2010
As is often the case, there is a big difference between what the government statistics are reporting and what’s going on in the real world. According to the most recent inflation reading published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), consumer prices grew at an annual rate of just 1.1% in August. The government has […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 30, 2009
Swine Flu Spreading at ‘Unbelievable’ Rate: WHO PARIS — Swine flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 percent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world’s top health official warned in an interview appearing Saturday. “This virus travels at an unbelievable, almost unheard of speed,” World Health Organisation Director […]
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Tags: business, Commentary, deficits, deflation, epidemic, Finance, flu, gold, health, inflation, pure didinfectant, silver, swine flu, taxes, unemployment, WHO