A gallon of milk is almost $7 here.

WAT

A 12 pack of cokes is $5.09 at Wal-mart.

WAT

Where do you live??? 

holy shit, someone get the paddles out for Yyz 

Yeah, those prices are nothing like what I'm seeing.
I've barely noticed a change when it comes to grocery shopping. 

Milk

3.27 a gallon here

12 pack of pop, MAX price, 3.99, usually on sale for about $3 

Huge change here. 

I think it's as cyclical as it's always been. It'll probably bottom out a bit further then start to rebuild. Then 5-8 years later there will be another downturn.

People tend to think of the economy in general all-or-nothing terms - probably because the sheer size and complexity of it is too much to fully comprehend. Whenever there's a downturn, it becomes a crisis of apocalyptic proportions. The US has a massive economic infrastructure, both here and abroad and incredible amounts of natural resources. Americans are still relatively high on the list of the world's hardest workers. The number of hours worked combined with per capita GDP generated has typically put us at the top. We innovate more than just about anyone (except probably Japan).

So long as we don't tax ourselves to death and keep the government from pissing all our money away we'll probably do fine until the meteor strikes. Even after that we own a shitload of guns and have lots of football pads to which we may adhere spikes. We should do pretty well in the post-meteor apocalypse too. 

It seems the media is full of doom and gloom but the indicators don't back them up.

Which indicators are you speaking of? 

I did notice that the price of pop has gotten out of hand. Milk here is $3 a gallon usually. Sometimes a bit more or less, but you can get deals when you buy 2 at once. 

Yup, other than higher gas, I really haven't noticed anything 

The hookers still cost the same, too! 

Where do you live???

Brunswick, GA.

70 miles south of Savannah, 60 miles north of Jacksonville, FL and about 2 miles from the ocean. 

Why is that stuff so expensive there yyz? 

I love how the price of soda dictates how worked up some people get about the economy. 

Why has soda gone up so much?

It was so cheap when I was a kid 

Fuck you, atom!
I swear to god if I have to switch to Big K or some shit I'm going to Canada! 

I love how the price of soda dictates how worked up some people get about the economy.

Yes, considering they could be obsessing about how their home equity is tanking and their investment portfolios are taking serious hits. 

I think that it is a price which they are familiar with... like for me it'd be beer, onions and pirogies. You? Probably Cosmo, butter and pomegranate juice, but I'm just guessing. 

Ransome said:

Fuck you, atom!
I swear to god if I have to switch to Big K or some shit I'm going to Canada!

don't do it, man! They keep their soda in plastic bags 

Yes, considering they could be obsessing about how their home equity is tanking and their investment portfolios are taking serious hits.

dont' have don't have 

dont' have don't have

Thus why many only feel gas, milk and pop prices and why some feel Walmart is a good investment now as many more will be joining the discount shopper ranks in light of the pressures they have been feeling. 

uh oh, someone mentioned Wal-Mart 

uh oh, someone mentioned Wal-Mart

Does that mean someone with a mullet earned their wings? 

Or just a greater vest? 

No, it means this thread may take a turn for the worse. 

Or just a greeter vest?

 

The wal-mart in my area opened up more jobs and is saving us poor folk money over what we had for a dept. store 

oh, and gave us more of a selection 

Go the thrift store, the clothing is probably better than the crap they sell at Wal-Mart. 

Well, I'm not buying clothes there. 

other than inherited wealth, how the hell do you think folks got their wealth?

Connections, luck, cheating people out of money, illegal activities, etc.... the list is long and I am not saying that all rich people have gotten there due to ill means but I wouldn't say either that the rich are there due to hard work or entrepreneurial skill either. 

It seems the media is full of doom and gloom but the indicators don't back them up.

Again, which indicators.

Are we talking share prices, interest rates, liquidity in the money supply, new orders, housing construction or consumer confidence?

I just want to be sure which indicators exactly that we should be looking to as opposed to the ones that the "gloom and doom" media are speaking about which resemble the leading financial indicators which most financial institutions use. 

stop using big words 

inntheory said:

Connections, luck, cheating people out of money, illegal activities, etc.... the list is long and I am not saying that all rich people have gotten there due to ill means but I wouldn't say either that the rich are there due to hard work or entrepreneurial skill either.

i guess my parents my be connected, lucky, cheaters, and criminals. i always thought it was their hard work and entrepreneurial skill that made them multi-millionaires.

driving around in a POS car all their life and putting in all those long hours. man, they had my fooled. i guess i should call the cops on them now because it's obvious they probably killed several people to be where they are now.

i'm so disappointed. 

I am not saying that all rich people have gotten there due to ill means

I am not saying that all rich people have gotten there due to ill means

I am not saying that all rich people have gotten there due to ill means

I am not saying that all rich people have gotten there due to ill means

I am not saying that all rich people have gotten there due to ill means

Just in case you missed him saying that 

Connections, luck, cheating people out of money, illegal activities, etc....

Certainly the first two are central to entrepreneurial success. And I would think a lot of legitimate business activities could easily misconstrued for the latter two. 

bobby3eb said:

Why is that stuff so expensive there yyz?

I believe that more than likely that it is a combination of several things.
The cost of fuel, coupled with news headlines like this one, along with the consumer price index in our town.
One of the other problems we have in our town is that off the coast here are St. Simons Island, Sea Island, and Jekyll Island.
The median income for St. Simons and Jekyll are about $58K a year.
The median income for Sea Island is guestimated at around $120K a year
Then, you cross the bridge where we live and income drops to about $22K a year.
When bigger businesses come to our town, they are attracted to high median income figures they see and their prices are adjusted accordingly.
However, what they fail realize is that these islands with there higher income only accounts for about 15-17% of our county population.
This coupled with the fact that our county's major source of income is tourism, so you know there is some gouging going on there!
I could go on, but I'll get of my soapbox and shut up...

for now. 

I found that very hard to fap to 

Move 

Wait, you're married??

Uh, where have you been? I've been married for 1.5 years and with him since January 2003? 

Uh, where have you been?

not 100% involved with fazer's lives? 

I love the economy! 

Yet you ask here about her marriage. 

Maybe some of us are too young to see differences 

Wow, I just looked up the median family income for Nassau County, and holy hell.... I'm rich!

(Then why am I in fucking overdraft already and not getting paid until the 10th.) 

A gallon of milk is almost $7 here.

That's insane. It's $2.19 here and I freak when it sometimes hits $2.79.

I haven't really noticed a whole lot, other than having to readjust our budget. Hell, I'm crossing my fingers for a raise in 2 weeks. 

Shut Birdy, I heard you like communism and vespas. 

Yet you ask here about her marriage.

It was a joke, a small detail picked out of a much bigger post on a different topic. 

I love how the terrorist's goals was to hurt our economy. They've won!
Why is that not discussed more? Am I only one who remembers this?
Never Forget. 

median income in this county is $10/hr.

For a family it's like $14/hr, total 

Ransome said:

Shut Birdy, I heard you like communism and vespas.

No! I like spending money! On soda and hotdogs! FUCK YEAH INDEPENDENCE DAY THE ECONOMY ROOLZ COMMUNISTS DROOLZ