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I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet

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Thursday, December 9, 2021 8:27 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Still wondering how the fact that Bezos just gifted Barack Obama with $100 Million USD sits with him.

Bezos makes gifts to Obama foundation and NYU medical center
https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-united-states-philanthrop
y-barack-obama-a1fe61bbca6fb8c417ac84f3f654f281


Sorry to tell you, 6ix, but that is not the cause of inflation.

MacKenzie Scott, Bezos' ex-wife, donated $billions to Obama. Also, not the cause of inflation.
https://www.google.com/search?q=MacKenzie+Scott+donation+to+charity



You're so fuckin' dumb dude.

I didn't say that this transaction caused inflation.

You said:

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It's weird how corporate profits are shattering records.
Yet they get zero blame for inflation & price increases.



Then I asked you to ask Obama, who accepted $100 Million from the guy who makes his workers pee in bottles and threatened to move operations out of any state that forms a union in his company.

I'm making the obvious correlation between Democrat politicians and big business.


It's obvious to everyone who isn't a cultist like you, anyhow.





P.S. Your definition of inflation is something a kindergartner would think.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021 8:55 AM

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P.S. Your definition of inflation is something a kindergartner would think.

6ix, you're an idiot who thinks he is smart. You dropped out of the inflation game by stopping buying and working. You can't lose this game because you refuse to play, but most people must play and their opponents, the rich people who set prices and inflation, usually understand the game. (Some don't and become poor people, given enough time.) As for Obama taking money from Bezos and Bezos' ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, what is your point? That Obama is contaminated by Amazon truck drivers pissing in bottles because Obama took money from people you hate, 6ix? I can see why you don't have any money, 6ix. If the morals of buyers had to be excellent in 6ix's estimation before sellers and charities take their money, there wouldn't be much trading of cash for goods and services or giving to charity.

I realize that 6ix has "alternate" explanations for everything under the Sun that allow him to blame Biden for inflation because, you know, it has to be politics to blame, not blame how Capitalism has functioned for centuries. That way 6ix doesn't need to cope with real complications involving greed and wealth, complications independent of Federal Reserve Interest Rates (which Biden has no control over) and Covid-19 economic relief money (which only Congress has control over, not Biden) and Federal and State Spending (again, not in Biden's control). But 6ix and his ilk will never know any of this because they are a bunch of know-it-all ignoramuses.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:18 AM

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Thursday, December 9, 2021 7:20 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:You can't lose this game because you refuse to play...



You're goddamned right I did.

Because I'm smarter than you and most other people, and made one hell of a life for myself by saving every cent I could when times were good and then making some extremely wise decisions with them.

Shame about the little drunken 5-year hiccup, but I've long since recovered from that and now I get to sit back and watch the proles scramble about and tear each other apart for the scraps.

I also get to opt out of any external attempts at holding my job hostage unless I get an untested vaccine without ever having to worry about how the hell I'm going to feed myself if I don't submit to tyranny. By the time I will have run out of money, I'll get to watch and see what happens to all of you and it will be about as long as it normally would have taken for a new vaccine to have been tested before they started using human beings as test-subjects en-masse.

Don't be a hater, bitch.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021 8:18 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:You can't lose this game because you refuse to play...



You're goddamned right I did.

Because I'm smarter than you and most other people, and made one hell of a life for myself by saving every cent I could when times were good and then making some extremely wise decisions with them.

Shame about the little drunken 5-year hiccup, but I've long since recovered from that and now I get to sit back and watch the proles scramble about and tear each other apart for the scraps.

I also get to opt out of any external attempts at holding my job hostage unless I get an untested vaccine without ever having to worry about how the hell I'm going to feed myself if I don't submit to tyranny. By the time I will have run out of money, I'll get to watch and see what happens to all of you and it will be about as long as it normally would have taken for a new vaccine to have been tested before they started using human beings as test-subjects en-masse.

Don't be a hater, bitch.

Have you seen the Netflix cartoon "F Is For Family"? It is not funny. It is "The Simpsons" without a happy ending to episodes. Last episode I saw ended with a heart attack not played for comedy.

It shows Americans, very much the same as real ones I know, who can't cope competently with life and it doesn't over exaggerate how badly Americans go about living. It is not money or working that is their problem, because if the family won the lottery they'd be just as mentally unsound with new wealth and leisure as they are working.

The cartoon has never touched Trumpism, because "F Is For Family" is set in the 1970's, but this family would vote for Trump to save them from the problems they cause for themselves. Unfortunately, no politician can solve this family's problems, no matter how much they believe it is possible because their exterior problems are caused by problems inside their minds. But the family really wants to believe that cause and effect runs in only one direction: exterior problems cause mental problems. Reality runs in both directions.

https://psarips.top/tv-show/f-is-for-family/
https://www.metacritic.com/tv/f-is-for-family

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Thursday, December 9, 2021 9:36 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Trump didn't "save" me. I saved myself.

What Trump didn't do was make American's lives worse.

Biden* and his administration are making American's lives worse.


Democrats are cancer that need to be cut out.



P.S. F is for Family IS funny. It's also serious at times.

You're just a humorless git.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021 9:39 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


And here's what your people are doing...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-just-crazy-12-major-cities-hit-a
ll-time-homicide-records/ar-AARB4ar


So spare me the bullshit.

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Friday, December 10, 2021 7:14 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump didn't "save" me. I saved myself.

What Trump didn't do was make American's lives worse.

Biden* and his administration are making American's lives worse.


Democrats are cancer that need to be cut out.



P.S. F is for Family IS funny. It's also serious at times.

You're just a humorless git.

6ix, go back and read your posts at the time Trump first announced he was running. You were like a Christian who heard that Jesus has returned for the Second Coming of Christ. You were literally like one of those drunks who finds religion and that gives them the strength to put down the bottle. And "F Is For Family" is funny if you laugh at videos of people falling down and getting hurt. I don't.

So many Americans are angry (which made them vote for Trump) because America hasn't been as wonderful as they dreamed it would be once they finish school and go out into the world. See the video:



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Friday, December 10, 2021 9:36 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Whatever, psycho. I'm sure everybody in here remembers all of the times I've quoted the bible.

Oh wait... That's you.



Trump reversed the trend of Democrat damage.

Now that Democrats stole the 2020 election and are behaving the way they are, everybody gets to see exactly who they are.

It's a beautiful thing.

Democrats as a party are putting nails in their own coffin.


I love the fact I can sit on the sidelines and watch it happen.

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Saturday, December 11, 2021 7:13 AM

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Consumer prices rose by 6.8% in November over previous year, Labor Department ... The number marks highest annual inflation rate since June 1982
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/consumer-price-index





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As you’ve seen on national TV, “smash-and-grab” gangs are hitting shopping malls like the one near her – the same one I often take my granddaughters to.

And now there are even young thugs who’ll follow you home from the mall and break into your house.

It’s no wonder my daughter is afraid to go out to her mailbox in the dark by herself.

She’s not alone. Many people in the multi-troubled state of California are living in fear.

It is bad enough that for almost two years the Democrats in charge of the state government have used the war on COVID as an excuse to expand their powers and abuse us with strict lockdowns, school closings and mandates.
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2021/12/11/the-californi
a-crime-wave-n2600433

But seven years ago the state’s so-called progressives brought us Proposition 47, a sentencing “reform” measure that among other things essentially decriminalized retail theft by making stealing anything with a value of less than $950 a mere misdemeanor.




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The price level is now 4% higher than it would be if inflation had remained on its trendline.

https://jabberwocking.com/inflation-remains-high-in-november/

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JKXk

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JKXM


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Saturday, December 11, 2021 11:45 AM

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lol.

Fuck your graphs. Nobody is going to care about them when next month's heating bills roll in.



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Saturday, December 11, 2021 12:04 PM

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lol.

Fuck your graphs. Nobody is going to care about them when next month's heating bills roll in.

The reason your heating bills will be higher is that you are too stupid to blame your fuel supplier rather than the Democrats. Your fuel supplier knows you are stupid, which is why your supplier can easily raise prices and then laugh at you all the way to the bank depositing your money.

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Saturday, December 11, 2021 12:11 PM

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lol.

Fuck your graphs. Nobody is going to care about them when next month's heating bills roll in.

The reason your heating bills will be higher is that you are too stupid to blame your fuel supplier rather than the Democrats. Your fuel supplier knows you are stupid, which is why your supplier can easily raise prices and then laugh at you all the way to the bank depositing your money.

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Well... Mine aren't more.

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Saturday, December 11, 2021 1:28 PM

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Vegetarians will say they aren't paying more for meat, but . . .

Four of the biggest meat-processing companies, using their market power in the highly consolidated U.S. market to drive up meat prices and underpay farmers, have tripled their own net profit margins since the pandemic started.

Financial statements of the meat-processing companies - which control 55%-85% of the market for beef, poultry and pork - contradict claims that rising meat prices were caused by higher labor or transportation costs.

https://www.reuters.com/business/meat-packers-profit-margins-jumped-30
0-during-pandemic-white-house-economics-2021-12-10
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Increases in meat prices accounted for 25% of the rise in consumer prices for food consumed at home in November, a big driver in the surge in inflation seen in recent months.

Tyson increased the price of beef so much — by more than 35% — that they made record profits while actually selling less beef than before.

The companies didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Saturday, December 11, 2021 8:24 PM

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It's fun watching your hypocrisy just spill out all over the place as you scramble to run defense for your failed President* and his failed Presidency*



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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 2:25 AM

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Are you trying to set a record for the most incorrect things ever posted on a website or something?

Don't bother dude. There are too many people dumber than you are. You can't even be the best at that.

Are you calling stupid the idea that Biden does NOT cause price increases in America because prices are also rising in places where Biden is NOT President?

Price rises aren't controlled by Presidents, but all the Trumptards I know in Texas are absolutely certain that the President controls prices, including control of the world price for petroleum. By the way, the world price and Texas price for petroleum are very close, with only small differences because of transportation and refining costs. Presidents have no control over crude prices and never will because crude can be shipped from anywhere to America. Coming from anywhere makes the price about the same everywhere in the world. https://www.thebalance.com/crude-oil-brent-versus-wti-808872

Is Biden President of the World? Because the World has inflation:

Inflation rate worldwide

Euro Area 4.1%
United Kingdom 4.2
India 4.48
Germany 4.5
Canada 4.7
South Africa 5
Spain 5.4
United States 6.2
Mexico 6.24
Russia 8.13
Brazil 10.67
Turkey 19.89
Argentina 52.1

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate

Sometimes I forget what a moron you are - mostly because you neglect to sh!t up every sensible thread. But then you post such incredibly insipid drivel as this.
Do you really conjure that anybody except your demented Libtard buddies could believe that tiny Argentina with it's tiny economy is greatly affecting Global Inflation.

The largest economy on the globe is ours, USA. I'll make a table, with inflation, GDP, and a simple, rudimentary weighting score from multiplying the 2.
Table sorted by the weighted effect on Global Inflation.


G D P Infl Wghtd Nation
22.67 06.2 140.4 United States
05.37 09.0 048.3 Japan
16.64 02.3 038.3 China
00.38 52.1 019.8 Argentina
04.31 04.3 019.4 Germany
01.44 10.7 015.4 Brazil
00.72 19.9 014.3 Turkey
03.04 04.5 013.6 India
03.12 04.2 013.1 UK
01.48 08.1 012.0 Russia
01.88 04.7 008.8 Canada
02.93 02.8 008.2 France
01.28 06.4 006.9 Spain
01.80 03.7 006.7 Korea
02.10 02.9 006.1 Italy
00.30 05.0 001.5 South Africa

USA has greater effect on World Inflation, and more than 7 times the effect of all but 2 other nations.
Your assertion that the tail is wagging the dog is bunk.

The economy of USA is so massive that it requires catastrophic destruction to flip it from the success of Trumponomics to the return to Obomanomics 3.0 - no other nation has the influence to worsen Obiden's disaster. But Libtard Democraps will bring down the economies of the world.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 3:53 AM

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Second likes to pretend he has half a brain.

If Trump told OPEC not to pull any shit, they'd listen to him.

When Biden begs OPEC to lower gas prices they say Fuck Joe Biden.



It's also the "green" policies the US and the EU have dived headfirst into that are the reason we have zero reserves right now.

EU is "willing" to pay those high prices because they fucked themselves and if they don't pay them then they will all freeze to death over the winter.


Food goes up along with everything else when everything else goes up in price. Especially gas, which everybody needs to pay for and which drives the costs of everything else up.

Well, no. Many people don't actually buy volumes of gas. That is why Libtards like being anonymous city slickers, so they can have trains, buses, elevators, cabs.
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Nobody is claiming that brain-dead Biden* is sitting there in the Oval Office and raising all of the prices of everything himself. It's the horrible policies that Democrats are passing that are making everything rise.

And seriously. Fix the fucking shipping problem already. What the literal fuck.


You're a fucking idiot, Second.


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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:36 AM

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It sure doesn’t look like high inflation is a permanent thing



In the New York Times today, economist Glenn Hubbard says, "We Need to Do Hard but Necessary Things to Tackle Inflation." Uh oh, I thought. What horrible things is he proposing?

The Fed must begin tapering asset purchases more aggressively now. In recent weeks, Mr. Powell has signaled a willingness to double the pace of the taper to $30 billion a month — a move he should make in this week’s meeting of Fed officials.

....The Fed should also raise its benchmark federal funds rate in early 2022. This is a short-term interest rate at which banks borrow and lend reserve balances with one another. He should also be prepared to make further adjustments should macroeconomic conditions, including broader and longer-lasting inflation, demand it.

That's it? Reduce asset purchases—something the Fed is already likely to do—and raise interest rates by a quarter point or so a few months from now? If this is all Hubbard thinks we need to do, he must not think the current bout of inflation is very serious at all.

More at https://jabberwocking.com/it-sure-doesnt-look-like-high-inflation-is-a
-permanent-thing
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:43 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second likes to pretend he has half a brain.

If Trump told OPEC not to pull any shit, they'd listen to him.

When Biden begs OPEC to lower gas prices they say Fuck Joe Biden.



It's also the "green" policies the US and the EU have dived headfirst into that are the reason we have zero reserves right now.

EU is "willing" to pay those high prices because they fucked themselves and if they don't pay them then they will all freeze to death over the winter.


Food goes up along with everything else when everything else goes up in price. Especially gas, which everybody needs to pay for and which drives the costs of everything else up.

Well, no. Many people don't actually buy volumes of gas. That is why Libtards like being anonymous city slickers, so they can have trains, buses, elevators, cabs.



What does that have to do with anything?

They're still buying shit all day long with their Prime membership and food at the grocery store. They certainly aren't out hunting their own food and growing it.

Does this stuff all magically appear at the grocery store and on their doorstep?

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University of Michigan: Inflation Expectation

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JQtI


Median expected price change next 12 months, Surveys of Consumers. The most recent value is not shown due to an agreement with the source.

This data should be cited as follows: "Surveys of Consumers, University of Michigan, University of Michigan: Inflation Expectation© [MICH], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MICH/, (Accessed on 12/14/2021)"


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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 11:09 AM

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Nobody cares about those graphs when they're worried about how they're going to pay their bills and they're buying food on credit.



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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 11:12 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Congrats, Biden* team.

We're now seeing records being broken from before the day I was born.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/the-most-small-businesse
s-since-1978-raised-prices-in-november-due-to-high-inflation/ar-AARNzdc


Go Joe*!

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 11:29 AM

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Nobody cares about those graphs when they're worried about how they're going to pay their bills and they're buying food on credit.

There is the strongest connection in the universe between not having money and not having enough commonsense to understand simple concepts, such as those concepts in the graphs. People who suffer are the same people who are absolutely certain they already know what they absolutely don't know.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares about those graphs when they're worried about how they're going to pay their bills and they're buying food on credit.

There is the strongest connection in the universe between not having money and not having enough commonsense to understand simple concepts, such as those concepts in the graphs. People who suffer are the same people who are absolutely certain they already know what they absolutely don't know.

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Once again... Not talking about myself. I'm fine.

Your graphs are bullshit, and you have no understanding how money works.


What's happened in the last quarter of 2021 is that expanded unemployment benefits ran out for tens of millions of Americans, Rent/Mortgage moratoriums ended, all while the average rent went up 13+% for the year, house prices have reached asinine levels after bidding wars all spring and summer for them, Gasoline has increase over 50% from last year, winter heating costs are up anywhere from 40% to 100% from last year, depending on your location.

For the moment, we won't even discuss what's going to happen to those millions of renters and homeowners who will lose civil suits and be forced to have their wages garnished for the rest of their lives paying back all that free rent they had for a year and a half with interest.




Most of the people who actually don't know how to read your cute little graphs are the minority voters that Democrats had always just taken for granted would always vote for them.

Looks like they were wrong. It's a 50/50 split on Latinos between Democrats and Republicans now, and I guaranty you that there will be a higher percentage of blacks voting against Democrats than did so in 2020.



Joe* had better stop listening to out-of-touch, apologist idiots like you and start addressing these problems, or you're going to lose the minority vote.

All you'll have left then are college "educated" whites and radicals.

Good luck with that party ever winning any elections going forward.

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I kicked your ass in here, so you decided to pile on and fling ignorant and meaningless personal attacks with the resident Feminist trash in the other thread, huh boy?



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Here is a case study of inflation in action. By the way, nobody can stop this price gouging, except the people in the hospital who set the prices:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-bi
lling-markups


Leaked Scripps records reveal huge mark-ups for hospital care - Los Angeles Times by David Lazarus

Ridiculous, seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system — and a key reason Americans pay more for treatment than anyone else in the world.

But to see price hikes of as much as 675% being imposed in real time, automatically, by a hospital’s computer system still takes your breath away.

I got to view this for myself after a former operating-room nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas shared with me screenshots of the facility’s electronic health record system.

The nurse asked that I not use her name because she’s now working at a different Southern California medical facility and worries that her job could be endangered.

Her screenshots, taken earlier this year, speak for themselves.

What they show are price hikes ranging from 575% to 675% being automatically generated by the hospital’s software.

The eye-popping increases are so routine, apparently, the software even displays the formula it uses to convert reasonable medical costs to billed amounts that are much, much higher.

For example, one screenshot is for sutures — that is, medical thread, a.k.a. stitches. Scripps’ system put the basic “cost per unit” at $19.30.

But the system said the “computed charge per unit” was $149.58. This is how much the patient and his or her insurer would be billed.

The system helpfully included a formula for reaching this amount: "$149.58 = $19.30 + ($19.30 x 675%).”

You read that right. Scripps’ automated system took the actual cost of sutures, imposed an apparently preset 675% markup and produced a billed amount that was orders of magnitude higher than the true price.

This is separate from any additional charges for the doctor, anesthesiologist, X-rays or hospital facilities.

Call it institutionalized price gouging. And it’s apparently widespread because the same or similar software is used by other hospitals nationwide, including UCLA, and around the world.

The former Scripps nurse said she decided to snap photos of the system as she watched stratospheric price hikes being imposed while a patient was still on the operating table.

She said one of her jobs in the operating room was to keep a running tally of all supplies used during a procedure. As she entered each item into the system, it automatically noted the actual cost and tabulated how much Scripps would bill for it.

“I understand that hospitals have overhead,” the nurse told me. “But to mark up something like sutures by 675% is insane.”

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Frontline workers are getting raises, but inflation is whittling the gains to "pennies"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-real-wages-raises-workers/

From Coffee to Gasoline, Inflation Surges Everywhere in 2021

https://www.theepochtimes.com/from-coffee-to-gasoline-inflation-surges
-everywhere-in-2021_4154124.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=RCP



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Frontline workers are getting raises, but inflation is whittling the gains to "pennies"

Prices can be raised no higher once the price gouger has taken all the money. That is why prices rise to match wage increases. From the viewpoint of the price gougers of America, this logic of price gouging is impeccable.

Wages have been declining

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-wages-have-been-declining-steadily-
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lol

What are you doing about it then, mister big shot oil tycoon.

You certainly aren't changing anything by posting here.



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lol

What are you doing about it then, mister big shot oil tycoon.

You certainly aren't changing anything by posting here.

You seem to completely misunderstand who benefits from inflation. If you can raise your prices, you benefit, but then you are causing inflation for those poor souls who can't. It's pretty straight forward how inflation works and for who it works best. And it is even easier to understand why prices can't increase too fast: buyers wouldn't be able to pay and sales would collapse to zero dollars per day, which doesn't benefit sellers. Competent sellers know the story about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Raising prices too fast kills the goose.

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Nobody cares about your Democrat defense, bud.

Watch the headlines. Those winter heating bills are incoming.

Democrats are done.


And it's hilarious to watch them attempt to turn on their Corporate Masters that they've been catering to the last 5 years now.



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What are you doing about it then, mister big shot oil tycoon.

You certainly aren't changing anything by posting here.

You seem to completely misunderstand who benefits from inflation. If you can raise your prices, you benefit, but then you are causing inflation for those poor souls who can't. It's pretty straight forward how inflation works and for who it works best. And it is even easier to understand why prices can't increase too fast: buyers wouldn't be able to pay and sales would collapse to zero dollars per day, which doesn't benefit sellers. Competent sellers know the story about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Raising prices too fast kills the goose.

Yes, Union members like inflation, it creates pay raises for them while working folk get nothing. But they don't like it too fast, because they need to wait for the CPI to register the inflation. They like it best when there is a large inflation bump right at the end of the period when the CPI translates into their pay raises, then they don't spend too much time falling behind the curve.

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Nobody cares about your Democrat defense, bud.

Watch the headlines. Those winter heating bills are incoming.

Democrats are done.


And it's hilarious to watch them attempt to turn on their Corporate Masters that they've been catering to the last 5 years now.

"It's hilarious", 6ix wrote. No, it is NOT hilarious that voters keep blaming inflation on the wrong people, but it does make the right people laugh hilariously all the way to the bank. Voters are barely smart enough to make some money but not close enough to being smart enough to halt inflation. The right people who set prices really do delight in the fact that there is always more money to take while the voters never do understand well enough what is happening to stop the game of price gouging and inflation.

6ix does use a powerful tactic to handle inflation. If 6ix does not buy then the price setting cheaters in the inflation game can't trick 6ix out of money. The tactic has built-in disadvantages, but the tactic is very straight forward in execution. In Firefly, the crew avoids price inflation by not buying. Instead, the crew steals, which is never straight forward in execution and has its own built-in disadvantages as a tactic for winning the money game and beating inflation.

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Yup.

You can't win if you don't play, but you can't lose either.



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Thursday, December 16, 2021 7:56 PM

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Meanwhile...

Why isn't AOC and her buddies screaming like banshees about Nancy Pelosi and her buddies gaming the system with their insider trading and walking away from a lifetime of "public service" as multi-multi-millionaires?

It couldn't be because they've all had a taste of it too now, could it?

Nah.... That would be crazy.



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After adjusting for inflation, Americans continued spending lots of money:



Real GDP: Percent Change at Annual Rate, 2021:Q2-2021:Q3
Hawaii is the growth champion at +6.0%, while New Hampshire and North Dakota bring up the rear at -3.3%.



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Little Caesars just raised prices by a dollar. Their Hot-N-Ready pizzas have been at a set price of $5 for more than 20 years until now. Chicken wings were $6.

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Just did my finances yesterday. If you don't include the $85 for the month that goes to my property taxes, I've spent less $75 so far this year, and that includes $50 for home improvement stuff.



The Biden*flation heat bill is going to suck, and the water bill comes up this week also, but I wear hoodies and keep the temp down and water is cheap in Indiana.



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I liked this example of inflation because it was so blatantly a huge grab for money while people were vulnerable. Texas electric generators took in $50 billion in one month when they usually take only $9.8 billion in 12 months!

Texans spent an exorbitant amount on electricity during a week in which most of them couldn’t get much electricity. For the entirety of 2020, Texans paid $9.8 billion to keep the juice flowing. But on February 16, 2021, they spent roughly $10.3 billion. Costs for the month of February totaled more than $50 billion.

During the February 2021 freeze, the gas industry failed to deliver critically needed fuel, and while Texans of all stripes suffered, the gas industry scored windfall profits of about $11 billion.

It’s possible that some of the massive profits were illicit. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is looking into potential market manipulation by Texas pipeline companies, which are subject to the least regulation and oversight of any pipelines in the country. Those companies operate in a regulatory penumbra. For their pipelines operating only in Texas, they’re generally exempt from reporting tariffs and other market information the federal government requires of interstate pipelines.

The article in Texas Monthly explains how they got away with legally stealing all that money in higher electric and gas bills. It is tl;dr for most people, but that's EXACTLY why most people always get screwed by inflation. To understand how sellers use inflation you need to think like a seller who can arbitrarily raise prices sky-high when the conditions are right. When are conditions right? When you can falsely shift the blame for higher prices away from the sellers who actually control prices to the weather, to the pandemic, to somebody else.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-electric-grid-failure
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I liked this example of inflation



We know you do. You've made 7,000 posts about it already.


Biden* killed the keystone pipeline to make AOC happy. The UK didn't get any wind this year and was willing to pay anything to keep warm.

Energy prices went up.

Thank you Leftists.



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We know you do. You've made 7,000 posts about it already.


Biden* killed the keystone pipeline to make AOC happy. The UK didn't get any wind this year and was willing to pay anything to keep warm.

Energy prices went up.

Thank you Leftists.

I've assumed that the average man will never understand how prices are set. It is NOT the government setting the price, but because the average man believes it is the government, the real powerful people have even more power than they would if Mister Average understood.

Gasoline Price Inflation: Exxon hits a $23 billion gusher in profits

EXXON’S BOTTOM LINE

2021 profit: $23 billion, compared with a loss of $22.4 billion in 2020.

2021 revenue: $285.6 billion, compared with $181.5 billion in 2020.

Q4 2021 profit: $8.9 billion, compared with a loss of $20.1 billion a year earlier.

Q4 2021 revenue: $85 billion, compared with $46.5 billion a year earlier.

US Regular Gasoline Price
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=LAei


Fuel has the reputation of being very price-inelastic: Consumption changes little even when the price changes. One way to illustrate this relationship is to compare the gasoline sales with prices.
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2014/12/keep-the-car-running-retail-ga
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Biden* killed the keystone pipeline to make AOC happy.

If you looked at a pipeline map you would know that not building the Keystone Pipeline was good for Texas and bad for Canadian tar sand oil producers. The Canadian energy infrastructure company TC Energy officially abandoned the project in June 2021. Either Indiana gasoline dollars go to Canada or to Texas, but price per gallon of gasoline does not decrease when Canada is selling tar sand oil in the USA because tar sand oil is more expensive to refine into gasoline than West Texas crude.
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-pipeline

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The UK didn't get any wind this year and was willing to pay anything to keep warm.

Wind power generation is not how natural gas prices are set.

Russia made a slight reduction in the amount of natural gas sold to Europe and the result was a huge increase in Russia's income from natural gas. The price all over Europe, not solely nations buying Russia's gas, skyrocketed. "Russia’s natural gas production is expected to hit an all-time high this year, beating the 2021 record, yet this winter season’s deliveries to Europe have been much lower than usual." Putin has at long last understood how Capitalism works -- an artificial reduction in cubic meters of natural gas sold causes a huge increase in price and income measured in Euros.

Low natural gas deliveries from Russia appear to have artificially tightened the European gas market, the IEA’s Executive Director Fatih Birol said earlier this month, adding that energy systems “face significant risks” by relying too much on one supplier for a key energy source.

“We see strong elements of ‘artificial tightness’ in European gas markets, which appears to be due to the behaviour of Russia’s state-controlled gas supplier,” Birol wrote.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Russian-Natural-Gas-Production
-Expected-To-Hit-All-Time-High-This-Year.html


Price of Natural gas in the EU
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=LyJd


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You keep proving that every day. Thanks for doing your part.

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It is NOT the government setting the price



I never once said that it was.

But you're the one disingenuously pretending that government policy doesn't have any part in the prices that we pay.

You are a liar.

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You keep proving that every day. Thanks for doing your part.

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It is NOT the government setting the price



I never once said that it was.

But you're the one disingenuously pretending that government policy doesn't have any part in the prices that we pay.

You are a liar.

When the Federal government hands out trillions of dollars, that does not raise prices. But sellers know that buyers now have money that they didn't have before the government handed out trillions. The sellers raise their prices to take that money away. Sellers are not forced to raise their prices but they will when the opportunity comes along. Buyers don't understand how to handle sellers while sellers understand how to cheat buyers. Sellers who are too dumb to raise prices will go out of business, leaving smarter sellers to continue swindling their stupid customers who have no idea about what to do, other than to withdraw from life. I haven't seen many buyers do anything other than surrender to sellers without a fight.

I realize you won't understand, because if you did you would have to fight. Most Americans won't fight because they are kind of cowardly when facing someone with a strong will and a belligerent attitude, which describes most sellers. Buyers won't band together in a war against one seller, although that is the obvious strategy of a union against one employer.

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Originally posted:
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We know you do. You've made 7,000 posts about it already.

Biden* killed the keystone pipeline to make AOC happy. The UK didn't get any wind this year and was willing to pay anything to keep warm.

Energy prices went up.

Thank you Leftists.

I've assumed that the average man will never understand how prices are set.

Gasoline Price Inflation: Exxon hits a $23 billion gusher in profits

EXXON’S BOTTOM LINE

2021 profit: $23 billion, compared with a loss of $22.4 billion in 2020.

2021 revenue: $285.6 billion, compared with $181.5 billion in 2020.

Q4 2021 profit: $8.9 billion, compared with a loss of $20.1 billion a year earlier.

Q4 2021 revenue: $85 billion, compared with $46.5 billion a year earlier.

this might be interesting.
Expenditures in 2020: $203.9 B. (Average $51.0 per Q) For Q4: $66.6 B.
Expenditures in 2021: $262.6 B. (Average $65.7 per Q) For Q4: $76.1 B.

Other than Lord Darth Obidens inflation, this seems remarkably stable. It takes a long time for such a large company to slow down the rate of expenditures. But they were able to do so in 21Q4 in order to make a small profit.
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=LyA9


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Fuel has the reputation of being very price-inelastic: Consumption changes little even when the price changes. One way to illustrate this relationship is to compare the gasoline sales with prices.
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2014/12/keep-the-car-running-retail-ga
s-sales-and-prices
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A more useful chart would be gas consumption volume.

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Starbucks: "we are forced to raise prices due to inflation and supply-chain issues"

Also Starbucks: "our profit just went up 31% and we gave our CEO a 39% raise to $20.4 million"

Companies are doing a great job rebranding corporate greed as "inflation"

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1488726631493550085

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Next time you hear about "supply chains" and "inflation" causing rising gas prices, keep in mind:

Exxon just posted a $8.9 billion profit and is giving it all to shareholders and executives via a stock buyback.

Its main competitor just did the same thing

Chevron just posted a $15.6 billion profit, its biggest since 2014. The extra money is going to investors via a larger dividend.

We have a corporate greed problem, not an inflation problem

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1488632447495516163

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Expect $4.00 at the pump before spring.

Go Joe!*

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