Back in 1994, I bought a 27" color TV for $ 528.38 including tax...

I was cleaning out my files and found the receipt...

I charged it...

This year I paid cash for a 32" HDTV...

$ 563.00, including tax...

Both were made overseas...

So, inflation is not a problem for consumer product, part of the core inflation rate the talking heads say is the real way to gage inflation...

So, gas is up from say % 1.00 back in 1994 to over $ 3.00 now...

Food is more expensive, a good steak is now going for about $ 11.00 a pound at the local grocery store...

Good, not fillet or prime rib...

Neither are included in the talking heads favorite core rate...

But if you are surviving over there off the core rate, like a lot of people are, inflation is a big problem...

Wages have stagnated...

Just an observation...

It's one of the only things that has remained at the same dollar figure forever, except my investments of course.

I heard an argument that in constant dollars, the first transistor radio in the late 1950s costs about as much as an iPod today

radios were about $25. The I-POD was $300 I think. In constant dollars the first color TV's would be thousands of dollars.

take how much you were making an hour. how many loafs of bread could you buy with that?

compare it with the wage per hour and price of bread today.


goes same with milk, sugar or any of the "staples"

The $500 model is probably a real garbage can of a model that won't last 14 years.

anything made with or fed with corn...

Through the roof.

I am paying over twice what I paid for a bag of barley 4 years ago. Ditto for a one pound bag of dried lentils or beans.

Anything grown and moved to marked by use of diesel...

Through the roof.

Too bad we can't eat TVs and all the other electronics that haven't gone up so much in price. But, the people MUST have their circus or they might notice the are being done in by something that has gone from class warfare to near class genocide.

But I'm about to buy some more, this spring.

I just paid 2.50 for a dozen large eggs. OUTRAGEOUS!

I think I can maintain five or six chickens for the eggs cheaper than buying eggs. Plus, homegrown is always better.

Eggs have tripled in price here in the past eight months.

and setting containers of it in windowsills with seeds....

The times, they are a changin.

$20 for a large box of Tide

$3.50 for the store brand box of fabric softener dryer sheets

$1.79 for 2-liter bottle of pop

$1.79 for store brand can of chicken noodle soup

And every week its getting higher.

And I live in a wheat producing area.

and gasoline was 75 per gallon. it took me until 1998 to make 11 an hour in the same industry. wages have declined at a steady rate since 1973

I know who I believe in what about you?

....the exploding demand has allowed the current reasonable prices. LCDs and other flats have really tumbled in price from just a year ago.