The architect of Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber, famously said, “We relied upon the stupidity of the American voter“, when they lied about the changes to healthcare in order to get Obamacare passed into law. Today the White House Chairman of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, pulled out the Gruber playbook and attempted the same level of nonsense to convince the media that food inflation wasn’t real.
The effort is to downplay the massive scale of food price increase. Watch a few minutes of his presentation as prompted below:
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Just about everything Brian Deese stated in that segment about the root cause of food price inflation is false. He’s not mistaken, he is not getting it wrong, he is not looking at false assumptions, he is lying. He knows what he is saying is false…. he also knows it is abjectly silly on its face. The proteins are driven up by the skyrocketing feed prices underneath them.
If you take away the food products driving the highest price increases, the price increases don’t look quite as high. What the heck kind of bizarro-world spin is that? Yes, it is true, if I take the fork I stabbed you with out of your eye the headache might subside slightly. Good grief.
Wheat, corn and soybeans are the foundation of the U.S. food supply. They are primarily used as ingredients in processed foods, oils, and are fed to the cattle, hogs, and poultry that supply meat and eggs for the American diet. When those grain harvests go up in price, the downstream increase in price is far reaching. Additionally, the part about multinational corporations merging and profiteering is a little disingenuous considering Joe Biden recently increased the amount of food stamp assistance by 25% per recipient, and expanded the program.
Part of the lobbying in the food industry by BigAg multinationals is to advocate for the expansion of U.S. taxpayer benefits to underwrite the costs of the domestic food products they control. By lobbying DC, these multinational corporations get congress and policy-makers to expand the basis of who can use Food Stamps, EBT and SNAP benefits (state reimbursement rates). Expanding the federal subsidy for food purchases is part of the corporate profit dynamic.
With increased taxpayer subsidies, the food price controllers (BigAg Multinationals) can charge more domestically and export more of the product internationally. Taxes, via subsidies, go into their profit margins. The corporations then use a portion of those enhanced profits in contributions to the politicians. It’s a circle of money.
Food inflation is created by Joe Biden policy. CTH has talked about this specific issue for years. All of the significant price jumps at your local supermarket are directly connected to federal policies that destroy the supply and demand balance within the food industry.
Joe Biden’s economic policies are beneficial to the multinationals, crushing to the domestic U.S. economy and driving massive increases in prices in a variety of sectors. If you understand the background, you can predictably see the cause and effect. The current price increases are directly related to previous issues. Consider this warning from May, 2021, which we highlighted earlier in the year:
USA Today – From tortillas to cornbread, some of your favorite corn-based dishes may go up in price late this summer. Corn has been leading the rally among grain commodities, rising more than 30% in 2021, according to MarketWatch. (more)
[NOTE: Wheat, corn and soybeans are the foundation of the U.S. food supply. They are primarily used as ingredients in processed foods, oils, and are fed to the cattle, hogs, and poultry that supply meat and eggs for the American diet. When those grain harvests go up in price, the downstream increase in price is far reaching.]
Remember, there is no such thing as a “commodity” market in the free market sense of the word. Those commodity markets are now “controlled markets“, and fully under the control of massive multinational agricultural corporations.
MAY 2021 […] “Americans should definitely expect an eventual rise in prices later in the year,” says Moya. “The surge with grain prices should not immediately be visible at supermarkets, since retailers absorb the initial increase. (But) eventually, the margin pressure will be too big and probably at some point late in the summer, Americans will start to take notice to some increases on grocery shelves.” (more)
Many Americans are recently awake to the singular ideology that surrounds DC politics. The UniParty political fraud also applies to our political economy. However, just like the election, understanding the deception in modern economics means understanding previous false and promoted assumptions. Economically speaking, Bernie Sanders supporters and the various left-wing advocates therein, are correct in stating the greatest financial and economic benefits have been delivered to the top 2% wealthiest people, the Wall Street class per se’.
Factually, while not resenting the wealth, most intellectually honest conservatives admit this is also the current reality. The wealth disparity in the U.S. increased substantially over the past two decades. It was only under the economic policy of Donald Trump when the wealth gap actually began to close for the first time in decades.
Additionally, the professional political class would like both sides on the political continuum to continue disunity, argument/disagreement on the outcome and avoid discussing the root cause. It is within a comprehensive understanding of the root cause where Americans find unity.
We’ve already discussed how two entirely divergent economies, a Wall Street economy, and a Main Street economy, were created by exploitation of financial interests and the accompanying legislative priorities.
Regardless of mid-1980’s political motives, the result was the creation of two entirely disconnected economies. The professional political class merely pandered to the demands of their most influential legislative donors. Hence, TARP, Bailouts, etc.
Main Street’s economy was/is a more traditional economy, based on “Americanism“ and economic patriotism. Wall Street’s economy is purely financial (mostly paper), and based on the multinational financial instruments that underline “Globalism“.
This is not to say that all Wall Street engagements or activities are bad, they are not. Financial instruments and corporate interests have a large place within our traditional economy. However, global financial instruments may, or may not, have a similar positive influence.
Given the historic rise of global corporatism and massive multinationals, it’s easy to spot the inherent anti-nationalist sensibility. Wealth doesn’t spread without a spreader; and American wealth doesn’t spread, without an American wealth spreader.
So we end up with two economies; which, over time, have grown further and further apart. The wealth disparity between the middle class and the “well off” class, tracks identically with the separation of these two economies. – SEE HERE –
[…] there had to be a point where the value of the second economy (Wall Street) surpassed the value of the first economy (Main Street). [This important acceptance is just common sense. The U.S. GDP is currently around $20 trillion, but the total valuation of the Wall Street stock market is much larger than our GDP. Wall Street is more valuable than Main Street. It is a simple albeit important reality to accept.]
Investments, and the bets therein, needed to expand outside of the USA. Hence, globalist investing.
However, a second more consequential aspect happened simultaneously. The politicians became more valuable to the Wall Street team than the Main Street team; and Wall Street had deeper pockets because their economy was now larger.
As a consequence Wall Street started funding political candidates and asking for legislation that benefited their interests.
When Main Street was purchasing the legislative influence the outcomes were beneficial to Main Street, and by direct attachment those outcomes also benefited the average American inside the real economy.
When Wall Street began purchasing the legislative influence, the outcomes therein became beneficial to Wall Street. Those benefits are detached from improving the livelihoods of main street Americans because the benefits are “global” needs. Global financial interests, investment interests, are now the primary filter through which the DC legislative outcomes are considered.
There is a natural disconnect. (more)
President Trump was confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host (USA) ie YOU. There are trillions at stake; it is all about the economics; everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
The road to a “service-driven economy” is paved with a great disparity between financial classes. The wealth gap is directly related to the inability of the middle-class to thrive.
Elite financial interests, including those within Washington DC, gain wealth and power, the U.S. workforce is reduced to servitude, “service”, of their affluent needs.
The destruction of the U.S. industrial and manufacturing base is EXACTLY WHY the middle class has struggled, and exactly why the wealth gap exploded in the past 30 years.
Behind this dynamic, we find the international corporate and financial interests who were inherently at risk from President Trump’s “America-First” economic and trade platform. Believe it or not, President Trump was up against an entire world economic establishment. Conversely, Joe Biden is an ally of the multinational corporations.
When we understand how trade works in the modern era, we understand why the agents within the system are so adamantly opposed to U.S. President Trump.
♦The biggest lie in modern economics, willingly spread and maintained by corporate media, is that a system of global markets still exists.
It doesn’t.
Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations. Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Bank control trillions of dollars in economic activity.
Underneath that economic activity, there are people who hold the reigns of power over the outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America-First national economics. Collectively known as “The Big Club”.
The modern financial constructs of these entities have been established over the course of the past three decades. When you understand how they manipulate the economic system of individual nations you begin to understand why they are so fundamentally opposed to President Trump.
In the Western World, separate from communist control perspectives (ie. China), “Global markets” are a modern myth; nothing more than a talking point meant to keep people satiated with sound bites they might find familiar. Global markets have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations who control the products formerly contained within global markets.
The same is true for “Commodities Markets”. The multinational trade and economic system, run by corporations and multinational banks, now controls the product outputs of independent nations. The free market economic system has been usurped by entities who create what is best described as ‘controlled markets’.
U.S. President Trump understood what had taken place. He used economic leverage as part of a broader national security policy; and to understand who opposes President Trump, specifically because of the economic leverage he creates, it becomes important to understand the objectives of the global and financial elite who run and operate the institutions. The Big Club.
By understanding how trillions of trade dollars influence geopolitical policy, we begin to understand the three-decade global financial construct they seek to retain and protect.
That is, global financial exploitation of national markets.
FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS:
♦Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national outputs (harvests and raw materials), and ancillary industries, of developed industrial western nations. {example}
♦The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks. (*note* in China it is the communist government underwriting the purchase)
♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
♦With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
Against the backdrop of President Trump confronting China; and against the backdrop of NAFTA renegotiated; and against the necessary need to support the key U.S. steel and aluminum industries; revisiting the economic influences within the modern import/export dynamic will help conceptualize the issues at the heart of the matter.
There are a myriad of interests within each trade sector that make specific explanation very challenging; however, here’s the basic outline.
For three decades economic “globalism” has advanced, quickly. Everyone accepts this statement, yet few actually stop to ask who and what are behind this – and why?
Influential people with vested financial interests in the process have sold a narrative that global manufacturing, global sourcing, and global production was the inherent way of the future. The same voices claimed the American economy was consigned to become a “service-driven economy.”
What was always missed in these discussions is that advocates selling this global-economy message have a vested financial and ideological interest in convincing the information consumer it is all just a natural outcome of economic progress.
It’s not.
It’s not natural at all. It is a process that is entirely controlled, promoted and utilized by large conglomerates, lobbyists, purchased politicians and massive financial corporations.
Again, I’ll try to retain the larger altitude perspective without falling into the traps of the esoteric weeds. I freely admit this is tough to explain, and I may not be successful.
Bulletpoint #1: ♦ Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national elements of developed industrial western nations.
This is perhaps the most challenging to understand. In essence, thanks specifically to the way the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established in 1995, national companies expanded their influence into multiple nations, across a myriad of industries and economic sectors (energy, agriculture, raw earth minerals, etc.). This is the basic underpinning of national companies becoming multinational corporations.
Think of these multinational corporations as global entities now powerful enough to reach into multiple nations -simultaneously- and purchase controlling interests in a single economic commodity.
A historic reference point might be the original multinational enterprise, energy via oil production. (Exxon, Mobil, BP, etc.)
However, in the modern global world, it’s not just oil; the resource and product procurement extends to virtually every possible commodity and industry. From the very visible (wheat/corn) to the obscure (small minerals, and even flowers).
Bulletpoint #2 ♦ The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks.
During the past several decades, national companies merged. The largest lemon producer company in Brazil, merges with the largest lemon company in Mexico, merges with the largest lemon company in Argentina, merges with the largest lemon company in the U.S., etc. etc. National companies, formerly of one nation, become “continental” companies with control over an entire continent of nations.
…. or it could be over several continents or even the entire world market of Lemon/Widget production. These are now multinational corporations. They hold interests in specific segments (this example lemons) across a broad variety of individual nations.
National laws on Monopoly building are not the same in all nations. Most are not as structured as the U.S.A or other more developed nations (with more laws). During the acquisition phase, when encountering a highly developed nation with monopoly laws, the process of an umbrella corporation might be needed to purchase the targeted interests within a specific nation. The example of Monsanto applies here.
Bulletpoint #3 ♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
With control of the majority of actual lemons, the multinational corporation now holds a different set of financial values than a local farmer or national market. This is why commodities exchanges are essentially dead.
In the aggregate the mercantile exchange is no longer a free or supply-based market; it is now a controlled market exploited by mega-sized multinational corporations.
Instead of the traditional ‘supply/demand’ equation determining prices, the corporations look to see what nations can afford what prices. The supply of the controlled product is then distributed to the country according to their ability to afford the price. This is essentially the bastardized and politicized function of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is also how the corporations controlling WTO policy maximize profits.
Back to the lemons. A multinational corporation might hold the rights to the majority of the lemon production in Brazil, Argentina and California/Florida. The price the U.S. consumer pays for the lemons is directed by the amount of inventory (distribution) the controlling corporation allows in the U.S.
If the U.S. lemon harvest is abundant, the controlling interests will export the product to keep the U.S. consumer spending at peak or optimal price. A U.S. customer might pay $2 for a lemon, a Mexican customer might pay .50¢, and a Canadian $1.25.
The bottom line issue is the national supply (in this example ‘harvest/yield’) is not driving the national price, because the supply is now controlled by massive multinational corporations.
The mistake people often make is calling this a “global commodity” process. In the modern era this “global commodity” phrase is particularly nonsense.
A true global commodity is a process of individual nations harvesting/creating a similar product and bringing that product to a global market. Individual nations each independently engaged in creating a similar product.
Under modern globalism this process no longer takes place. It’s a complete fraud. Massive multinational corporations control the majority of production inside each nation and therefore control the global product market and price. It is a controlled system.
EXAMPLE: Part of the lobbying in the food industry is to advocate for the expansion of U.S. taxpayer benefits to underwrite the costs of the domestic food products they control. By lobbying DC, these multinational corporations get congress and policy-makers to expand the basis of who can use Food Stamps, EBT and SNAP benefits (state reimbursement rates).
Expanding the federal subsidy for food purchases is part of the corporate profit dynamic.
With increased taxpayer subsidies, the food price controllers can charge more domestically and export more of the product internationally. Taxes, via subsidies, go into their profit margins. The corporations then use a portion of those enhanced profits in contributions to the politicians. It’s a circle of money.
In highly developed nations, this multinational corporate process requires the corporation to purchase the domestic political process (as above) with individual nations allowing the exploitation in varying degrees. As such, the corporate lobbyists pay hundreds of millions to politicians for changes in policies and regulations; one sector, one product, or one industry at a time. These are specialized lobbyists.
It is ironic that when we discuss corporate financial payments to government officials in foreign countries, we call them corrupt. However, in the United States we call it lobbying, the process is exactly the same.
EXAMPLE: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
CFIUS is an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person (“covered transactions”), in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.
CFIUS operates pursuant to section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) (section 721) and as implemented by Executive Order 11858, as amended, and regulations at 31 C.F.R. Part 800.
The CFIUS process has been the subject of significant reforms over the past several years. These include numerous improvements in internal CFIUS procedures, enactment of FINSA in July 2007, amendment of Executive Order 11858 in January 2008, revision of the CFIUS regulations in November 2008, and publication of guidance on CFIUS’s national security considerations in December 2008 (more)
Bulletpoint #4 ♦ With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
The process of charging the U.S. consumer more for a product, that under normal national market conditions would cost less, is a process called exfiltration of wealth. This is the basic premise, the cornerstone, behind the catch-phrase ‘globalism’.
It is never discussed.
To control the market price some contracted product may even be secured and shipped with the intent to allow it to sit idle (or rot). It’s all about controlling the price and maximizing the profit equation. To gain the same $1 profit a widget multinational might have to sell 20 widgets in El-Salvador (.25¢ each), or two widgets in the U.S. ($2.50/each).
Think of the process like the historic reference of OPEC (Oil Producing Economic Countries). Only in the modern era massive corporations are playing the role of OPEC, and it’s not oil being controlled, thanks to the WTO it’s almost everything.
Again, this is highlighted in the example of taxpayers subsidizing the food sector (EBT, SNAP etc.), the corporations can charge U.S. consumers more. Ex. more beef is exported, red meat prices remain high at the grocery store, but subsidized U.S. consumers can better afford the high prices.
Of course, if you are not receiving food payment assistance (middle-class) you can’t eat the steaks because you can’t afford them. (Not accidentally, it’s the same scheme in the ObamaCare healthcare system)
Agriculturally, multinational corporate Monsanto says: ‘all your harvests are belong to us‘. Contract with us, or you lose because we can control the market price of your end product. Downside is that once you sign that contract, you agree to terms that are entirely created by the financial interests of the larger corporation; not your farm.
The multinational agriculture lobby is massive. We willingly feed the world as part of the system; but you as a grocery customer pay more per unit at the grocery store because domestic supply no longer determines domestic price.
Within the agriculture community, the (feed-the-world) production export factor also drives the need for labor. Labor is a cost. The multinational corps have a vested interest in low labor costs. Ergo, open border policies… (ie. willingly purchased republicans not supporting border wall etc.).
This corrupt economic manipulation/exploitation applies over multiple sectors, and even in the sub-sector of an industry like steel. China/India purchases the raw material, coking coal, then sells the finished good (rolled steel) back to the global market at a discount. Or it could be rubber, or concrete, or plastic, or frozen chicken parts etc.
The ‘America First’ Trump-Trade Doctrine upset the entire construct of this multinational export/control dynamic. Team Trump was focused exclusively on bilateral trade deals, with specific trade agreements targeted toward individual nations (not national corporations). ‘America-First’ was also specific policy at a granular product level looking out for the national interests of the United States, U.S. workers, U.S. companies and U.S. consumers.
Under President Trump’s Trade positions, balanced and fair trade with strong regulatory control over national assets, exfiltration of U.S. national wealth was essentially stopped.
This puts many current multinational corporations, globalists who previously took a stake-hold in the U.S. economy with intention to export the wealth, in a position of holding contracted interest of an asset they can no longer exploit. That is why they needed to get him removed, by any means necessary.
The price of beef is ridiculous. Is there suddenly a cattle shortage? I’m convinced the greenies are working behind the scene to price beef off the US menu, remember them saying we must eat less beef because cows farting cause climate change.
Lots of changes happening …
Oat and soya based “milk” and dairy products. Coconut based whipping cream.
Plus fast food chains offering vegan choices.
“Impossible Foods”. Who the heck wants vegetable hamburgers? Thanks Burger King!
Not us.
the prices at the sale barns have tanked. Practically give away an animal if you take to sale. The slaughter butchers are packed. I have been trying to get a slaughter appointment at my regular bu her for six months, and they stil are not booking new appts until after Oct 1 because they are already booked into next year. Prices of feed, (hay, grain) and salt and minerals are going up, up, up.
everything in the grocery store is either higher priced or in smaller containers, and still higher priced. I used to spend around $100-120 when I did a major shopping trip. Now it is $220-250.
they are feeding and housing hundreds of thousands of immigrants on my dollar too.
get used to it – this is only the beginning of our demise – not being a naysayer – just telling the truth – imho
Believe it or not, I bought 3 whole beef brisket packers last month at $2.99 a lb. here in GA. Just saw them on sale today for $3.99 a lb. Been quite a while since I’ve seen a price that low! Most folks don’t have a clue what to do with them. I do… BBQ at Barny’s!!! 😉
Did a brisket and pork butt last weekend, basically a 2 day job.
In April brisket was $1.99 and butts were $.99.
WD in FL had butts for $.99 this week, friends with the butcher, said they sold as fast as he put them out. No rain checks any more—Rona ya know.
Beef short ribs are the worst $7.50 for bones hurts the head.
Folks,
i am an old guy (66) and have seen this picture show before.what we are seeing is the post v/n maliase and the start of stagflation..all the ingredients that were here before are present now.
in our business we see runups in costs before anyone else does.our two major r/m’s are up 55% since nov ‘20 and 155% since the election.you have to pass them along.this stuff is landing on main street and the funny money is going to end badly.always does.
here is the good news.reagan stuffed those commies back in the universities.wish it would have been permanent because they never quit.trump beat em back again.the shitshow is coming to mainstreet and if we push back loudly or quietly we will win.
keep the faith,stay armed,stay free.
keep the faith, stay armed, stay free and get down on your knees and pray to almighty God.
Eating beef is white privilege and leads to social injustice. Whatever you pay will be insufficient reparations. Heard it from some woke guy.
He sounds soylent.
My Jet’s Pizza is having a had time getting ..bone in chicken wings…inventory comes and goes..the other day they thought they may not have any for a month..!! I think they need another supplier..my local Donato’s has not had an issue..if Jet’s get from Tyson..I read somewhere that some brain trust in the company “changed” roosters or something and the new ones..? were not getting the job done!! have no idea if that is true..but I sort of like the story.
Chicken wings are scarce near me also. Have been for months. Many have removed them from the menu. When they can get them, it’s cost prohibitive.
So the White House is worried they might be held accountable according to this article. BS. Who’s going to hold the white house accountable??? NO ONE, NO ONE.
biden said he wanted to reduce beef consumption by 95%, and overall meat consumption by 50% and would be instituting policies to bring that about. Looks like he is well on his way.
Government sponsored weight loss.
Caloric redistribution.
Food Justice.
Imperialist Cornucopia.
Might be able to come up with a few more.
Ahhhhh yes, remember Mini Mike Bloomberg and his soda quota as Comrade Mayor of NYC.
Along with Big Mike’s inedible school lunch program; so bad it created a K-12 black market with kids selling candy, frozen pizza rolls and sodas.
That little ripoff cost us $10 billion. While Big Mike scarfed down ribs and french fries.
Major food distributor based here east coast FL had/has contract for schools in this county, don’t really know how many others. They serve many restaurants both local and chains.
They use trailers as rolling billboards for themselves and said eatery’s.
During Big Mike’s incredible inedible lunch years the students would see the delivery at the schools.
The trucks were tied to the “moldy green turkey wieners” in the lunch room, kids would see trucks on highway and not want to eat at the establishments on the trucks.
Am friends with owner of one of the chains and employee of the distributor, informed them of situation, floated idea non-de-script trucks for school routes.
Was a lesson in how kids perceive things.
Trump ended the program on Mike’s birthday. I thought it was a nice touch.
The reason the people of Venezuela lost an average of 25 pounds once their communists took control. The same can happen here.
That would be the one benefit of; Communist/Fascist/Totalitarian government control. People would live longer, but also suffer the misery longer.
I’d take fat, freedom and an earlier death over that any day!
Pets don’t fare well there . . .
They gonna be mad! A lot of Americans are FAT! Admit it. That’s why the only thing they want is food. They don’t care about that there beloved country that provides for them. Gone trust their government which is CORRUPT AS HELL! Y’all better wake up. Go buy groceries. Gonna cost you more. Our govt. Gonna take care of other countries instead of you. It makes me mad. I paid taxes for years. I only want for my fellow Americans to benefit, even if you want work.
Yes, removing meat, pork, and poultry would just be peachy keen for the numbers. Guess even the imported labor some of the processors tend to have at certain packing plants aren’t offsetting cost quite enough.
Tend to hear this come up in sports a lot: “if you take away the first two months of the season, they’d be in the playoff run right now.” Problem is, the games in the beginning count exactly the same.
Unfortunately Biden’s voters are government “workers,” rich people, and welfare people. None of them have to worry about food inflation.
Also, given the widespread vote fraud why would it matter if the people aren’t happy?
There is only one difference between Joe Biden and me. Joe Biden thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
– Mad Hatter
Old enough to remember price and wage controls. Sounds like it is headed this way. Scarcity, load up the freezer.
The stock on the shelves at my local Giant in the Allentown area are starting to thin out on some items.
I am just NOW having this thought –
This store has recently reconfigured / rearranged most of the aisles and made some of the sections, like snack foods (potato chips, etc.) for example, smaller.
I am now thinking that they already KNOW in advance of what food items are going to be in short supply and are adjusting shelf space accordingly?!
Of course! Our local grocery stores have both remodeled over summer and still have obviously empty shelves, our Target actually remodeled the public restrooms area into an actual’area’, with a large women’s, a large men’s, and a good sized family room plus a seated waiting area outside of the actual restrooms, and a customer service area… It now has taken over an area that used to hold 3 aisles of goods. What business (other than maybe a toilet manufacturer) takes away a large portion of it’s retail space for luxury restrooms??
wow. What State are you in?
Sounds like the old, luxurious “Ladies Room” in a fancy Downtown Dept. Store from the 60’s!
Is Target aiming to be the new Fancy Dept Store of the future? LOL.
Stores in my neck of the woods have begun to do the same.
Same here in AZ.
I am seeing a huge expansion of gruel space in my store.
The leftards will get all snooty about the various grinds and which purified water to blend it with.
Good thing it’s almost deer season here.
Amen! And here in Texas you can shoot feral hogs all year long (go for the small ones). Yup, those pesky reproduction machines that they keep trying to kill off just may be the saving grace of us all!
I’ve said it many times before, but one more time: Hogs aren’t a nuisance; they’re a resource!
In SC, 3 grocery chains remodeled. Smaller produce sections, mixing fruits and veggies. Milk cases stay half empty, and many items, including canned veggies, dried beans, and rice, are always nearly gone. One isle in one store is now empty.
I dont put much stock in any polls but if these latest ones are to be believed even Democrats are displeased with Joey and Kammy and that cant be good. Biden has always been a buffoon and a harmful agent but hes always been able to hide in the senate and feign compassion or folksy appeal and hes got away with his incompetence. Same when he was VP Ovama over shadowed him and mo one took him seriously. Now he cant hide from his ineptitude and phoniness. Kamnu as well. Joey wanted the top job and a virus targeted for humans and massive mail in voting/fraud gave it to him. No one has ever really liked him not even in his own party. The media cant really hide how awful he really is both as a statesman and a human being. We re hearing now his handlers are panicking when he stays to answer questions. H3s being told to leave and not answer. Contrast with Trump and near weekly 45 minute chopper presses? Of course they’re worried….this mean buffoon with a tiny intellect is going to take casualties with him.
He wiped his nose and then put his hand on the podium. Guess he isn’t worried about the Rona. What another sniveling twit in our gummint.
Buy up while you can, everything has gone up.
Dont worry Joe Empathy is working on his riff of a chicken in every pot right after his nap and pudding.
“…after his nap and pudding…”
Now that will become a classic?
Would be nice to have a continuing thread here that allowed all of us to detail exactly what is on, and what is not on the shelves of whatever grocery store in whatever city/state we are in.
Here in upstate South Carolina I’ve honestly got more fresh meat options than I can handle! Another brand new boutique butcher with all the fancy meat I like just opened up yesterday! I’ve now 5 of those total with a 5 min or less drive! Add four supermarkets all with both regular grocery store packaged meat as well as their own in house butchers. The prices have gone up a bit, but honestly not that much on red meat. Pork/bacon has jumped up quite a bit though.
I can vouch for my overall shopping bill each week having already jumped at least $80 a week, certainly.
Availability though, that is not a problem here. In fact I feel we have way, way more stock and choices for both general grocery items and specialty foods than this population needs. We aren’t urban either. Not sure why all the food seems to glut in my town and the one next over southward.
I am building a relationship with a local beef grower. Regular customers get priority. The steaks are great.
Never forget M(B)itch McConnell is in on it.
Yeppers! Good Old Boy Mitch came out of his shell and assured us there is not going to be any impeachment of his…..er the president. Guess he wanted to assure the present occupiers of the White House their lease was good through 2024.
The price of meat has definitely skyrocketed. I suspect there is some hoarding going on as well because we are seeing a lot of holes in shelves that we weren’t seeing two years ago.
The price of a lot of things is going up, while quality is decreasing. Try buying a used vehicle. We bought a used 2015 Chevy Terrain with 40,000 miles in 2018 for 18,000. The same used model with equivalent miles is now over 40,000. Nearly doubled in three years. The salesmen and dealerships don’t seem to be needing the sales because they easily let us walk away when we refuse to be taken to the cleaners.
The chicoms have tightened up the electronic chip supplies and since all the models are super smart and engineered with
a shiteload of electronics in them, the automakers production lines are stalled.
The dealership knows somebody else will pony up. We bought our last car through Carmax. I must say i was pleasantly surprised by their business model. You might look at what they have.
I’d give anything for a Dumb Car at this point. My dashboard lights are like Christmas Trees sometimes.
Tired of going to the Dealer to analyze and reset!
My old 3 on the tree, (remember those?) Chevy was so reliable. Sometimes I think I would trade down for less Gadgets and less hassle.
But my husband won’t let me even drive my car if the Anti-Brakes light is on, which is often.
These Computers Suck sometimes!
I live in the heart of cattle country. There are no less cattle now than before.
The bottle neck seems to be at the meat packers
Yes Covid rules and restrictions have a snowball slowing down effect. Once normal inertia is interrupted, it manifests itself.
Yes Covid rules and restrictions have a snowball slowing down effect. Once normal inertia is interrupted, it manifests itself.
Maybe not all the dealerships fault. The Dems drastic energy policy wants/seeks all electric cars in the near future.
cash for clunkers lowered the available supply and the microchip shortage has increased demand as new cars are sitting waiting for their electronic systems to be completed
An amazing, great, bold and fearless leader recently said –
“Everything woke turns to shit.”
Reminds me of the old Cold War joke: Russian leader addresses the people and says, “I have good news and bad news. The bad news is, we are going to have to eat shit to survive. The good news is, we have plenty of it!”
This in-depth (is there any other kind by SD?) article should be dedicated to the poster who kvetched earlier that gee, there weren’t enough new articles posted on this site so he might just have to “hang it up.” Out of courtesy, I won’t post his screen name. But here’s hoping you stop by, J____.
On the upside, the average cost of Thanksgiving dinner with be lower.
Enjoy your fishsticks and velveeta.
Don’t forget the always popular Turkey Flavored Laman Noodres!
…that sounds like an upgrade from cold
stone soup
ketchup (or catsup) soup
and a snow cone (a delicacy made from winter snow)
imho
“Yes, it is true, if I take the fork I stabbed you with out of your eye the headache might subside slightly.”
Thanks Sundance! I finally had enough of my supervisor and resigned today.
I needed a good laugh.
If you live in the country or are near it, time to start looking for local farmers of all kinds.
Get the freezer stocked. Look at getting some freeze dried food supplies JIC.
farmers in western NC will not sell to you if you do not have a mask or vaccination.
Not where I shop.
Here is the rub. Person wants to buy a beef for their freezer. If going price is $4.00 pound hanging weight, plus slaughter fees than you can expect that hanging weight to be, on average, about 60-63 per cent of weight on hoof. Even a very small breed animal will weigh 900 lbs on hoof, around 550 lbs hanging. Add a kill fee from $50 to $65 head plus cutting/packaging fees of $.50-70 per pound, and most people are just not willing or able to spend that couple thousand to fill the freezer.
best way is to find a group. for those on the outside … split cost
For many years we processed our own beef and pork at my husband’s grandfather’s farm. Most often his family raised it but we also purchased from locals. Ah the good old days.
Find a new market then. The Amish near us don’t seem to give a care to the rona.
You must be referring to Asheville, Hendersonville, and surrounding area.
“Just about everything Brian Deese stated in that segment about the root cause of food price inflation is false.”
The Biden administration is recycling the “cost-push” inflation narrative promoted by Jimmy Carter.
It’s a lie.
The problem now, as then, is “demand-pull” inflation: too many COVID dollars chasing too few goods.
When you hinder economic production and pay people not to work, the decrease in economic goods and the increased money supply drives up prices.
Brian Deese is a lying weasel and surely realizes he is promoting a destructive economic policy.
“Besides that, how did you like the play Mrs. Lincoln?”
Supply and demand. I think SD wrote an article saying they take supply for granted. They have destroyed supply, production and driven up demand with funny money.
This tells me inflation is coming big time. Buy now ask questions later.
When was the last time that a Democrat took the blame for his/her own mistakes?
“He’s not mistaken, he is not getting it wrong, he is not looking at false assumptions, he is lying. ”
This is the real ‘Pandemic’ that has been sweeping politically around the world.
The great reset was meant for us ignorant God loving white people. I see signs it will be the opposite.
The elite have been judged and their judgement was not by men. praise God for that, we don’t do well with judgement on the right. I do understand why but, it’s all based in hypocrisy.
Does salt judge what meat to spoil or which to save? If so what use is it but to be trampled under foot. We are salt and light, deal with it and leave the semantics to the left.
What? Biden plans to drive down the price of meat by giving away 1.4 billion in virus funds…
Biden administration plans tougher action to rein in meat prices
” the administration will funnel $1.4 billion in COVID-19 pandemic stimulus money to small meat producers and workers”
https://www.reuters.com/business/biden-administration-plans-tougher-action-rein-meat-prices-2021-09-08/
Xiden’s master should not be worried. He saved us .16¢ on a package of hot dogs in July.
We should be grateful.
/s
It finally, FINALLY all makes sense! Thank you for making it so easily understood. I’ve spent hours poring over endless pages, trying to understand why what I learned of economics 40 years ago no longer apply, and you have given me the answer to that, as well as to why Trump was good enough to be a friend to most of the liberal elite before getting into politics, then suddenly the devil incarnate to the same idiots. (Have you ever considered a career in teaching? I think you’d be amazing at it!)
Now if only we could figure out how to build a time machine and go back to the divergence point,…
Im looking forward to how much I’ll save on this years Thanksgiving dinner! Thanks to Joe How Old Are You Biden if Im really lucky Ill be able to afford a 12 ounce one legged no wing turkey this year. Hot Dam Uncle Jed fire up the turkey fryer!
Now they are laughing in our faces…….
Biden’s National Economic Council Brian Deese says if you don’t count beef, pork and poultry, grocery price increases “are more in line with historical norms.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1435679846307405830
And that’s a damned lie also, meat is not the only thing that has climbed exponentially in price.
It’s nearly $5 for a loaf of decent bread here.. and $5 for a box of decent breakfast cereal.
The price of a hot bowl of steam hasn’t changed much.
Same with “Nail Soup”. (that’s from the OLD days”! 😉
with a side of a 2- pack of Saltines!
MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, with “MIT” standing for “Marxists in Training” — obviously.
Umm ahh ahh…ummm ahh ahh… I could barely stand to listen to this imbecile!
Soylent green burgers are cheap.
But be careful with the ones made in China…
Following installation, immediately crash the energy independence/strength of the US and then:
Execute an increase in food stamp payments.
Propose to provide an increase to social security payments.
Propose to drop MediCare eligibility from age 65 to 60.
In other words, giveaways to hide/temper the disaster of potted-plant-joe-biden policies.
Gas/fuel oil in my area has already exceeded $1/gallon in 8 months. Based on my families’ fuel usage, we’ve already lost a mid-year (2022) vacation due to price increases.
One had thought Labor Unions looked out for the interest of Workers and represented their interests. The mask is off. We now see clearly why the so much production has been outsourced.
AFL-CIO President: Flooding U.S. Labor Market via Amnesty ‘Would Benefit’ Working Class Americans During an event at the White House on Wednesday, Shuler and President Joe Biden touted House and Senate Democrats’ plan to slip amnesty for illegal aliens into a $3.5 trillion so-called infrastructure package.
Shuler said:
With Shuler’s endorsement of the amnesty, the AFL-CIO — meant to represent the interests of union workers — joins the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Koch brothers network, tech corporations, and former President George W. Bush, among others, in lobbying for the legalization of millions of illegal aliens to compete against America’s working and middle class for U.S. jobs.
A flooded labor market from mass legal and illegal immigration to the U.S. has had a devastating impact on the nation’s working and middle class while redistributing wealth to the highest earners. In creating an economy that tilts in favor of employers, the economic model helped keep wages stagnant for decades.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/08/afl-cio-president-touts-amnesty/
Between 1979 to 2013, wage growth for the bottom 90 percent of Americans grew just 15 percent. Meanwhile, wage growth for the top one percent of Americans was nearly 140 percent higher.
They know they have lit the inflation fire, the FED has lost control of the money supply too. They’ve destroyed the productive economy, spiked demand by giveaways and funded it with money printed out of thin air. Of course there’s inflation!
Just FYI, I have an elderly cat that only eats baby food (bad teeth), so she is limited to beef, ham, chicken and turkey. She doesn’t like turkey but will eat chicken if nothing else shows up and she gets hungry enough. Ham and Beef baby food have gone up by .20cents a jar, and I used to order it online at a rate of 12 jars for $9.98.
The last time I attempted to submit an order, the cheapest I could find Ham was at $26.98 for the same 12 jars. At the grocery store it was selling for $1.19 a jar (remember these are very small jars) and there were only 7 jars available. Similar situation for the beef.
She may have to learn to like turkey.
…or mice. When I was a kid on the farm cats had a purpose. Cats were mouse control. Today’s cats are fat cats and fat cats don’t hunt…..same goes for people.
You may want to explore what flavors you like, you know, just in case.
And dog food is very expensive. I often give my dogs boiled chicken legs, I pick off the meat and brown rice or sweet potatoes. I can get a lot of chicken legs at Costco cheap. And it healthier for them and of course they like it better then the dog food. I also feed them chicken hearts and gizzards which the grocery store has for cheap. Yes they are spoiled.
Semi/sorta related, maybe. I’ve been waiting 9 days for a new windshield (rock kicked up by a truck hit and knocked a 4 inch crack in it that over the past 9 days has turned into three separate 18 inch long cracks). The cause of me not having a new windshield by now, despite everything being approved by my insurance company? Per chick at windshield replacement company “A national glass shortage caused by covid shipping delays.” So…SO…SOOOOO….beyond sick of this. Everything is because of covid, and everyone uses it as an excuse for everything and anything, to include not doing their jobs.
Covid is an excellent excuse when dealing with Libtards.
I’m sorry to hear that. We just had all three of our vehicle windshields replaced (we were saving them up–ha). The only reason we had to wait an extra day was because of a scheduling issue. Maybe find another company?
I’m glad I live in a rural area. I can grow a lot of food and if I want to I can keep cows, pigs and chickens.
The biggest example of inflation is the price of Hunter Biden’s paintings.
Since Joe Biden became President they have gone up about 3 million percent.
Whether they’re worried, or not, hardly matters. They have POWER.
When I first understood Sundances “Maganomics 101” (after reading it about 20 times) the part about “lemons/widgets” and how we in the U.S. pay $2.00 for a lemon that in el salvador costs $0.25, I immediately thought of medications.
Been (legally) buying medications internationally, for years.
The price HAS climbed, largely as a result of U.S.Government and with assist from Big tech,..but generally;
A “Rx” medication which is “off patent” costs $0.10 to $1.00/ pill in India, $3.00-$5.00 here.
I know of a medication which out of pocket here, costs $2400 for a 1 month supply; in India, $2800 buys a 400 day supply.
So, just as Food stamps are used to jack up the price of food, as explained in Sundances article, health insurance, and especially Obummercare, are used to jack up Rx drug prices.
And, they are GREEDY; the pharmacuetical industry has been trying (lobbying) for years, to get supplements classified as meds, so they can regulate them out of the market.
Due to consumer push-back, they have been unsuccesful, so now they (U.S. Govt.) are entering into “International agreements” which will accomplish the same goal.
And, it seems like the CCP is ‘fighting’ these multinational corps, over this control of markets, and the multinationals are either ceding the CCP model is superior, or are being infiltrated, corrupted and controlled BY the CCP, as the multinationals seem to be pushing for the same kind of thought control, practiced by CCP.
Can’t say I have a ‘favorite’ in a fight between CCP and Multinational corps, and not sure they are fighting, anyway.
Economic Nationalism is the only responce, I pray it is enough to prevail,..
Fortunately, pot belly pigs don’t require purchased grain, they fatten up well enough on table scraps.
Re “Fortunately, pot belly pigs don’t require purchased grain, they fatten up well enough on table scraps.”
Table scraps = Slop. Many of our grandparents raised a lot of tasty pork on it. Of course, they generated a lot more slop back in the day because they also raised a lot of their own chickens, beef, veggies and fruit; the preparation of which, contributed greatly to keeping the slop bucket full.
I was raised on a dairy farm with a bottling plant. Ours were fed out of date soured milk and the whey from making cheese. Good pork and great supply. We killed our own hogs and all the farm hands helped. They went home at the end of the day with enough pork to fill their freezers.
Great story, thanks for sharing!
So it’s because of “consolidation” eh?
Same approach pattern used to take over medical and insurance…..
1 State aligns regulatory and tax structure to build monopolies and force out competition.
2 Lack of free market competition allows price control and gouging ( a “crisis”).
3 Demonize the monopolies and blame them for the crisis.
4 State declares more laws, regulations and taxes to punish the monopolies.
5 Game over for citizens
Even the “stupid” American voter can answer if he is better off now than he was four years ago.
Yes, and the new “good ol’ days” refer to the days before the gubmit completely took control of every aspect of our lives.
Bet he didn’t mention cutting down wgts. in packages while simultaneously raining the price just a wee bit, did he?
I just couldn’t listen to the whole thing.
Food price inflation and the way they LIE about it makes me sick.
The USA consumes much corn syrup. It must be subsidised or mandated to be preferred over cane sugar?
Cane sugar is subsidized to raise the price so corn sweetener is used instead.
The Taliban are going door-to-door in Afghanistan searching for more than 200 female judges for payback. The women fear they will be murdered by the Taliban Islamists.
Way to go Joe & Ho
The women
fearunderstand they will be murdered by the Taliban Islamists.(fify)
I might have listened a little longer than most (was working on a project with earbuds in).
I was disturbed about all the talk of investing in the food processing capability of the US. My mind immediately went to thoughts of government control of the means of food production. And all under the guise of lowering food prices.
Exactly what ‘they’ will do. How many starved to death in the Ukraine when Soviets took their farms and seed?
There is a 3rd economy: The foodstamp economy. I expected the price of meat to go up with the increase in foodstamp benefits. Foodstuffs that we almost completely subsidize are then price inflated until the only people who can afford them are those people whom we also subsidize.
One economy eats, another profits, the third pays for it all and gets nothing.
Forcing people to remove meat from their diet might be a really bad idea unless we are provided supplements and educated on maintaining a healthy diet.
As a nation, we already suffer from metabolic disorders leading to poor health and susceptibility to disease due to poor nutritional choices.
A diet with no animal products can leave nutritional gaps.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-get-from-plants
The end game seems to be creating people who are mentally compliant, physically dependent on pills and medications. Happy little worker bees.
♪ In the year 3535 ♪
♪ Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies ♪
♪ Everything you think, do, and say ♪
♪ Is in the pills you took today ♪
Enough! How we going to stop this crap! Action is REQUIRED!
Since it’s gotten a little old and embarrassing for the (village idiot/ fake president) to keep on blaming the real President Trump, for everything, including food price inflation. Perhaps he needs to change strategy and start blaming Justin Trudeau of Canada or maybe even Lopez Obrador of Mexico. And if that doesn’t work, there are plenty of other heads of state to pick from.
Granny Clampett has a good recipe for possum stew. Who needs beef ?
I prefer ground hog to possum. Both the burrowing kind and the sausage kind.