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by china-golden She may have a point here. I don’t think China is “finished” however.
Huge backlog of 200 ships are stuck trying to enter the Panama Canal as they wait WEEKS amid slowed traffic due to drought: Delays set to wipe $200M off profits and cause spike in US grocery and parcel prices The …
Grocery prices rose 3.6% for the year, higher than the overall 3.2% increase of consumer prices, per CNN. Food altogether, including menu prices, went up 4.9%. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 15, 2023 Food and Gas Prices Continue to Rise, Putting …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTgLGZsvrOo If you live in America, are you seeing rent prices go up or down in your area this year? Despite recent claims that rent price growth is cooling down, new surveys just published by the Harvard Joint Center for …
Shoppers have become all but too familiar with Shrinkflation – when brands and supermarkets reduce the size of products while charging the same amount for them. But with the soaring cost of raw materials, there’s a subtle new tweak manufacturers …
by bitkogan The connection is straightforward: a dip in inflation is largely tied to plummeting energy and food prices. In July 2023, the average WTI oil price dropped 23.49% as compared with July 2022. Meanwhile, natural gas prices plummeted by …
Reality is all that previous excessive money printing has goosed up prices far above the long term core trend. And only a hard landing would even have a shot at bringing it back to trend, otherwise the future is clear: …
The Disney+ streaming service lost 300,000 subscribers in the United States and Canada in the most recent quarter — an ominous sign for the studio as it continues to pour billions of dollars into new streaming content that is flopping …
No. Prices are not falling. Inflation continued to rise in June. Itbhas risen every month of 2023. Only three items fell in June. When someone tells you lower Inflation means lower prices, a kitten dies. Save the kittens. pic.twitter.com/qxiMzMnCp5 — …
by Michael Over the past few years, we have seen food prices in the United States and other wealthy countries do things that they have never done before. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning. Global food supplies are getting tighter, …
On Wednesday, the Thai Rice Exporters Association revealed that the price of Thai white rice 5% broken, a key Asian benchmark, reached the highest level since Great Financial Crisis. This surge is mainly attributed to increasing fears of a global …
China export prices see their biggest drop in a decade. In developed countries “cheap consumer goods from China aren’t looked on as favorably as before." https://t.co/hGkrNMqZZm pic.twitter.com/S6rsl36shr — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) August 9, 2023 #China may be even more important …
European Natural gas prices just spiked 40% today ALONE. This is the biggest daily increase since March 2022. A long-lasting worker strike is likely to limit supply, Citigroup estimates EU natural gas prices could double. The never-ending fight against inflation …
Brampton real estate market declines 51% in just 2 months. Spring real estate market has come and gone in Brampton. Home sales less than 400 in July (that includes homes and condos in all of Brampton). Prices have also started …
by confoundedinterest17 Josef Stalin of the old Soviet Union used to be called County Joe. But Biden has so many possible nicknames: Corrupt Joe, Pay-for-play Joe, Sleazy Joe, Bully Joe, etc. How about Green Joe? Green Joe (or the Nasty …
Home foreclosures starting to explode Have you been looking around the housing market and thinking “There goes the neighborhood”? Well, you are not alone. In May of this year, ATTOM recorded a sharp uptick in foreclosure rates around the United …
The UK housing market sees weak activity caused by rising interest rates, pushing mortgage rates above 6 percent for home buyers and existing mortgagors looking to refinance. British house prices fell by the most since 2009 in the 12 months …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gXUl1E-Sc Have you noticed that delivery delays are becoming a lot more frequent recently? That’s because a new set of supply chain disruptions are impacting the shipping and trucking industry right now. Both maritime and road transportation companies are facing …
by Chris Black Yeah, well. Maybe we should change the way we produce food? No one really disagrees with that. The Guardian: A leading discount supermarket in Germany has raised the… Continue reading by subscribing. Username Password Remember Me …
via schiffgold: JP Morgan forecasts $2,000 gold by the end of the year with the price continuing to rise to record highs in 2024. In his latest note, JP Morgan executive director of global commodities research Greg Shearer projects the price of …
via Mike Shedlock: Median new home prices are plunging. What will homebuilders do for an encore to entice buyers? Median new home sales prices vs new home sales, data from the Census Department, chart by Mish Existing homes sales prices …
Have you seen how fast gas prices rose last week? New reports reveal that fuel stockpiles have dropped globally, and the problem is likely to get even worse over the next few weeks and months as demand continues to outstrip …
Gas prices in the US have surged to an eight-month high after foreign suppliers slashed production, and experts are warning that a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico could trigger further increases. On Friday the national average price of regular …
Luxury home prices in the Bay Area and Seattle fell between 10% and 13% in the second quarter, more than anywhere else in the country. Nationwide, luxury prices rose 5% from a year earlier. SEATTLE, July 26, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ: RDFN) …
by Hephaestus4 Oil prices also increasing. The Fed and mainstream media are living in an alternate universe. People are currently having to make choices between medicine, paying rents, food, or car payments/filling the gas tank. Church Food pantry near where …
by confoundedinterest17 Biden Press Secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “The American people are beginning to feel Bidenomics” Prices are up 16.6% and real wages are down 3% since Biden took office. Well, at least Jean-Pierre didn’t claim like her boss Joe Biden claimed …
According to Robert Shiller, a renowned economics professor at Yale University, the remarkable ten-year surge in U.S. home prices may find its conclusion when the Federal Reserve concludes its cycle of rate hikes. Yale University economics professor, Robert Shiller, predicts …
