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The Ultimate Inflation Indicator

If one follows this account on social media, primarily X, Gab, and Patreon, it is easy to read into my sarcastic postings that perhaps, just perhaps, I’m a tad cranky lately. Perhaps it’s the fact that our temperature ranges in Florida have gone from the 30’s to the 70’s in just a week or that my grocery bill is more random than a craps table due to inflation.

Personally, I believe it’s the latter.

While shopping at my favorite farm to table store in the Sarasota area, I took note of the price of a dozen eggs because for lack of a better word, it’s shocking.

However, this is NOT the ultimate inflationary indicator, it’s just an aggravation until this episode of the new Bird Flu passes us by.

For all of my long time readers and listeners, these pages started with the old Dollar Tree inflation indicator where package inflation was being used to reflect massive increases in the rate of inflation despite government denials in 2008. Packages of el cheapo D cell batteries shrunk from 4 to 3. No name cereal from 16 oz. to 12.3 oz. The list was endless with everything from toothpaste to rice being covered.

It wasn’t until the 2022 Great Inflation cycle though that Americans saw a real surge in Dollar Tree inflation when prices were increased to $1.25 per item.

Of course the political regime in charge at that time said it was the consumer’s imagination.

Thus with the start of a new trade war, this one indicator, an undeniable fact that the chain known as the Dollar Tree has provide America with the ultimate inflation indicator:

This picture was taken by yours truly while out and about with the wife yesterday.

If everything was still a “dollar” or even $1.25 in the Dollar Tree, what is the reason for a price scanner? Granted they have added other products in a desperate attempt to remain relevant, but their unique “everything is one price” was the ultimate attractiveness to the shopper as price stability was guaranteed on a wide array of products.

Inflation is here to stay and that picture speaks volumes that it is embedded into the US economy until a deflationary correction is allowed to occur.

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