"After five years of the federal government telling the public that despite a $3.5 trillion increase in monetary expansion, the inflation rate is below +2%, the Department of Agriculture (DOA) just warned the American public that the consumer price index for food is up by 10% this year.

The DOA tried to blame food inflation on the drought conditions in California, but last year’s drought was worse and food prices fell by -6%. The real problem is Federal Reserve monetary stimulus is stimulating inflation. I reported in "Food Price Inflation Scares the Fed” two months ago that commodity food costs were exploding on the upside. Given the lag in commodity costs impacting prices on grocery store shelves, annual U.S. food inflation is now running at +22% and rising....."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...n-Running-at-22

Every metric we used for decades to judge our economic soundness have been bastardized into absurdity. Anyone who has bought food over the last 4 or 5 years has been blown away by the price of groceries. I am paying now for ground beef what I used to buy filet mignon for. The only thing that has stayed stable is my beloved McDouble....



...still only a buck.

Yes, Frank, we'll always have McDonald's.

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Yes, Frank, we'll always have McDonald's.

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Good point

We'll all need to develop a taste for wheat germ and Soylent Green if she wins.

Yes, pretty nifty, huh?