nsacpi
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It's not my label. It is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' label. You can ask them. It is their job to collect data for the Consumer Price Index.
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It's not my label. It is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' label. You can ask them. It is their job to collect data for the Consumer Price Index.
sturg33
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We can do our normal song and dance.
We disagree. I say inflation is a problem. You lecture that its fine.
You smugly lecture me about how brilliant you are your useless anecdotes, etc.
Time goes on... your argument is simply destroyed by the facts. (See Russia, Kavanaugh, Covington, Wallace, 1932, Masks, Cuomo, Whitmer, Portland storm troopers... and I could go on for quite a while).
Then when I point how hopelessly wrong you were again, you go quiet... silent. Can't be bothered. You're on to the next lecture.
I say we just skip to the silence part and save yourself the embarrassment
We disagree. I say inflation is a problem. You lecture that its fine.
You smugly lecture me about how brilliant you are your useless anecdotes, etc.
Time goes on... your argument is simply destroyed by the facts. (See Russia, Kavanaugh, Covington, Wallace, 1932, Masks, Cuomo, Whitmer, Portland storm troopers... and I could go on for quite a while).
Then when I point how hopelessly wrong you were again, you go quiet... silent. Can't be bothered. You're on to the next lecture.
I say we just skip to the silence part and save yourself the embarrassment
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
just sharing some data on the food component of the Consumer Price Index...you are free to make what you want of it
sturg33
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You randomly shared data of food in urban centers
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The Bureau of Labor Statistics calls its main index for consumer prices the CPI-U (Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers). This is the one I used for the graph. The phrase "all city" means it aggregates across all cities. There is a separate CPI for individual cities. If you are interested in learning this is not a bad place to start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consumer_Price_Index
If you want to read the report for March 2021 you can find it here.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
There is a lot to take in. If you scroll down to table 4 of the March report you will see there is a Consumer Price Index for each region and for a bunch of individual metropolitan areas. The main one "all city" is for all of the locations they survey.
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Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
I’m not talking about mom and pops, because I think that doing so in this context is a well-intentioned sideline at best, and a bad-faith misdirection at worst.
I have some sympathy for small owners struggling to keep a business afloat. I’ve been one. I’m particularly sympathetic if they’re struggling to pay their own household bills, not buy a boat or a second home or whatever. I just think this whole conversation is missing the point in a lot of ways, and missing the point in a way that seems cynical and intentional. Too much focus on UI, too much focus on mom and pop, not enough worker perspectives, too much knee-jerk bashing of wage-earners, not enough systemic analysis.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
you have to go to the soccer boards for that
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
You act like this is an insane thing to know or find out lol
No matter how unskilled or whatever way you want to look down on those workers. They should be paid a liveable wage where they don’t have to make choices like getting medicine vs eating or rent etc etc etc
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sturg33
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I was told for 4 years what happens under his watch is on him.
The US has gas shortages as our federal government is fighting the ol diversity and inclusion battle first and foremost
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
I would make a distinction between say a hurricane hitting Puerto Rico and the president instructing FEMA not to spend available funds to help Puerto Rico. I know that's a fine and subtle distinction, but I'm gonna for it.