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Inflation Beyond the Stars Thread for April 12


               
2022 Apr 12, 12:49am   192,235 views  1,854 comments

by DemoralizerOfPanicans   follow (9)  

Since we know the numbers are going to suck since Peppermint Patty is leading the Amen Corner Media to blame Putin for it:
https://patrick.net/post/1344548/2022-04-11-putin-s-price-hike-failing-administrati

Frankly, I prefer my spaceship to have big tits and not fake inflated ones.

EDIT - numbers drop:
America goes back to the 80s: Surging gas prices and higher rents push inflation to 41-year high of 8.5% as White House blames it on Putin invading Ukraine
The consumer price index rose 8.5% in March from a year ago, the fastest increase since December 1981
Housing costs, which make up about a third of the index, have escalated and show no signs of cooling
Gasoline prices soared 49% in March from a year ago as the war in Ukraine rocked energy markets
Biden's administration tried to get ahead of the dire inflation news by blaming Russian leader Vladimir Putin
But Republicans place the blame for soaring prices on 'Democrats' reckless spending and failed policies'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10711311/Inflation-soars-new-41-year-high-8-5.html?source=patrick.net

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1825   HeadSet   2025 Oct 29, 12:37pm  

GNL says

You have to go Muslim and not charge interest on loans.

The "Muslim way" is to charge interest, but call it something else:

Car financed by bank that charges interest - $20,000 loan for 4 years at 8% would be $488.26/mo or a total of $23,436.48.

Muslim would have bank purchase car from dealer for $20,000 and sell to him for $23,436.48, with a "no interest" payment of $488.26/mo.
1826   AD   2025 Oct 29, 3:09pm  

HeadSet says

Muslim would have bank purchase car from dealer for $20,000 and sell to him for $23,436.48, with a "no interest" payment of $488.26/mo.


a Mohammed workaround

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1827   stereotomy   2025 Oct 29, 11:10pm  

AD says

HeadSet says


Muslim would have bank purchase car from dealer for $20,000 and sell to him for $23,436.48, with a "no interest" payment of $488.26/mo.


a Mohammed workaround

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That's because Mohammed was illiterate and therefore innumerate, and could only probably calculate simple interest in his head.
1828   AD   2025 Oct 30, 11:06am  

annualized inflation for 10 years leading up to 30 September 2025 was around 2.8%

yet the annualized return on investment for Vanguard's Total Bond Market ETF was about 1.8% during that same period :-(

the last ten years has been the dark ages for bond funds
1829   Patrick   2025 Oct 30, 2:20pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/rethinking-the-way-you-think-about


the best way to lessen income inequality is to balance the budget.

america is drowning under federal spending programs and every time someone tries to “redistribute their way to equity” this just gets worse because the spending is always there and it’s usually unpaid for.

when you run $2 trillion annual budget deficits, you end up printing endless piles of money.

this has been used to inflate a constant chain of concatenated bubbles which have been the relentless and implacable policy result of the alleged american central bank since the now seemingly tepid days of “the greenspan put” which begat the bernanke bailout which finally took us to the powell endgame of “print or die.”

it’s all an activist fed trying to stay ahead of runaway spending.

>30% of all M2 was created in the last 5 years, half in the last 10, and 84% since the irrational exuberance speech back in 1996 when greenspan warned of an internet bubble. here’s the graph of money supply growth vs real GDP growth. both are indexed to 100 on 12/6/1996 (the day of the irrational exuberance speech).




this is why we have had the unprecedented string of one bubble pouring into another in unending succession over the last 30 years.

this is what drives wealth inequality: it’s all about owning assets that are part of the bubbles. actual salary cannot keep up with that, especially in a global market and in the face of inflation. housing goes wild, especially if you let people buy with 2% loans over a 15 year span.



1830   RWSGFY   2025 Oct 30, 3:11pm  

It's not like we don't have an example of a bubble and crash w/o Fed put in place. Was that better?
1831   HeadSet   2025 Oct 30, 8:07pm  

Patrick says

the best way to lessen income inequality is to balance the budget.

This.
1832   PeopleUnited   2025 Oct 30, 8:59pm  

Soon a great leader will show up on the scene with promises to balance the budget, end wars, eliminate poverty and corruption. And before he is done he will demand the worship and obedience of every human being on the planet. Sadly most will give him just that.

Revelation 13:16-17
1833   AD   2025 Oct 30, 10:20pm  

PeopleUnited says

Soon a great leader will show up on the scene with promises to balance the budget, end wars, eliminate poverty and corruption. And before he is done he will demand the worship and obedience of every human being on the planet. Sadly most will give him just that.

Revelation 13:16-17


What is the "mark" referenced in Revelation 13:16–17 ? Is it some computer chip like what is on a credit card ?

The name of the beast could be the issuer of the "mark" which could be a major bank, and the number could be some routing number associated with the major bank.

Or its related to digital currency and a social credit score system which could control your consumer activities like limit how much electricity you can use ?

.........................................................................................

Revelation 13:16–17
King James Version
16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,
17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
1834   PeopleUnited   2025 Nov 1, 12:12am  

Speculation, but a working hypothesis is that somehow the mark is related to technology/trans humanism. Those who take the mark are irredeemable indicating they have given up their free will to repent and believe the gospel and rather have forfeited their humanity to be subservient to and worshipers of Lucifer.

A biological or technological alteration that changes them into something no longer free, but wholly captive to the satanic hive mind.
1836   AD   2025 Nov 3, 3:47pm  

Patrick says

https://sukwan.substack.com/p/sunday-strip-what-happened-to-the-efd






electricity rates has gone up about 4% a year since 2012 :-/

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1837   AD   2025 Nov 4, 1:52am  

Truflation reports annual inflation 2.26% versus federal government reported annual inflation of 3%


1841   RWSGFY   2025 Nov 18, 8:13am  

Patrick says

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/make-america-affordable-again






I once rode in a hospital elevator where only staff is allowed to ride. There on the wall was a union ad touting how they delivered 8-11% yearly salary increases for a decade or so (don't remember exact time frame given).
1842   AD   2025 Nov 20, 10:16am  



1843   Eric Holder   2025 Nov 21, 3:01pm  

Food and consumer goods are still expensive AF and keep going up.
1844   AD   2025 Nov 21, 3:12pm  



1845   AD   2025 Nov 21, 3:20pm  



1846   AD   2025 Nov 21, 3:22pm  

Eric Holder says

Food and consumer goods are still expensive AF and keep going up.

Eric Holder says

Food and consumer goods are still expensive AF and keep going up.


Since 2010, the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 2.6–2.8% per year, while the broader CPI for consumer goods (all items less food and energy) has risen at about 2.2–2.4% per year.
1847   AD   2025 Nov 21, 7:52pm  



1849   AD   2025 Nov 25, 11:02pm  

I remember around 2019 the $1 McDonalds value meals including cheeseburger and breakfast sausage biscuit and $5 footlong Subway sandwiches

now its like $9.50 for a footlong sandwich and $3.25 for a cheeseburger and $2.59 for breakfast sausage biscuit

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/uproar-over-4-dollar-fries-shows-just-how-severely-americas-standard-living-has

some of this price increase is that locally in Panama City Beach the starting hourly wage is $16 when it was around $10 back in 2019
1852   AD   2025 Dec 3, 12:15pm  



1853   AD   2025 Dec 3, 2:33pm  

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/apartment-rents-vacancies-november.html

The national median rent for apartments fell 1% in November from October, and now stands at $1,367, according to Apartment List.

The national multifamily vacancy rate was 7.2% in November, a record high.

The historic surge in multifamily construction over the past few years is now pulling back, but a good supply of new units is still coming online at a time of much weaker demand.
1854   Patrick   2025 Dec 4, 10:02am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/science-cafe-thursday-december-4


What most pundits miss is that Democrats handed Trump an “affordability” katana— and he’s now swinging it around, with gusto.

Everyone focuses on money printing as the big driver of Bidenflation. And absolutely, that played the starring role. But the chart at the top of this post tells the other untold part of the story: regulations themselves quietly ratcheted prices upward. Biden’s team made everything more expensive on purpose. Trump is now dismantling that machinery— and racing down the political highway at 90 mph.

Cutting suffocating regulations is the lowest of low-hanging fruit, and Trump is shaking the whole tree.

Democrats might regret turning “affordability” into their rallying cry. It just gave Trump the political cover to bulldoze one of their most cherished regulatory temples—and hand working families cars they can actually afford again.

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