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https://www.the-sun.com/money/14290986/fast-food-workers-meal-price-wage-cost-expensive/

at McDonald's in Panama City Beach the starting hourly wage is around $15 and a Big Mac Meal is around $11.00

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Fiber One "fart" bars:

US Mint to stop making pennies.

zzyzzx says

"US Mint to stop making pennies."

This is not good. We need to restore the value of the dollar and not admit
defeat by eliminating the penny. Besides, the Globalists want to eliminate
the dollar. Is this where we are headed?

AD says

From Boca Raton News in 1976 ... $50 in 1976 is around $280 in today's money

Huffy started to make bikes in the USA around 1890's. It had plants in Ohio, Oklahoma and California. It shut down USA manufacturing in 1999.

Thank you again Bill Clinton: https://cepr.net/publications/president-clinton-the-economy-started-losing-manufacturing-jobs-while-you-were-in-office

New Reese’s packaging. Now you only get 4 cups instead of 5

zzyzzx says

New Reese’s packaging. Now you only get 4 cups instead of 5

yeah just noticed at Walmart that the Great Value brand for the chocolate bar that is similar to Snickers is now at 4 bars instead of 5 bars but still same price of $2.56

they switched from 5 to 4 bars recently

its going to be interesting to see the inflation numbers through February 2026

I just pray the manufacturing jobs, trade deficit and federal deficit numbers for 2025 look a lot better than Birdbrain Biden's 2024 numbers

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zzyzzx says

New Reese’s packaging. Now you only get 4 cups instead of 5

Maybe with all this smaller portion packaging we will see some waistline shrinkflation as well.

zzyzzx says

New Reese’s packaging. Now you only get 4 cups instead of 5

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The_Deplorable says

zzyzzx says

"US Mint to stop making pennies."

This is not good. We need to restore the value of the dollar and not admit
defeat by eliminating the penny. Besides, the Globalists want to eliminate
the dollar. Is this where we are headed?

I agree, but what we really need is a return to physical silver coins.

That was the anchor which prevented the Fed from inflating the currency into nothingness.

Rent going up

https://www.barrons.com/articles/apartment-glut-ending-demand-rising-rents-headed-up-ab2ade9d

The high cost of buying a home makes renting look good in comparison. As demand intensifies, rent hikes are on the horizon.

With house prices still high, mortgage rates stuck just under 7%, and plenty of economic uncertainty, consumers are once again seeing the virtues of renting. Over a third of respondents told Fannie Mae in April that they would rent instead of buy if they had to move, the highest share since October and more than the long-term average of one in three.

Rent growth slowed over the past several years as the largest surge of new multifamily buildings in decades began working its way onto the market. But that is beginning to ebb. Multifamily construction completions peaked at a roughly five-decade high last August, and are down 28% since then, census data show.

“Apartment fundamentals are past peak pain,” says David Kirshenbaum, the assistant portfolio manager of the $2.06 billion Baron Real Estate Fund. “As fundamentals improve, and as demand continues, many landlords are already talking about the possibility of additional rent spikes if we look out over the next 12 to 24 months.”