Truthfully, prices just keep going up here. When I bought salad dressing for a potato salad the other day... MIracle Whip was almost ten dollars a jar, the little squeeze bottles too. I bought the store brand which was six. Ground beef is almost 7 dollars a pound, and I live in a freakin farm state. Make this make sense. I'm holding strong, but it's a squeeze at the grocery store.

Get physical Gold and Silver while you still can.

I'm hunkering down, but I don't think I can do it forever. I haven't figured out yet how to print money out of thin air.

Gas up here. Ain't nobody brought prices down. Any politician saying they have...well, they are lying.

Economics is on a rubber band. It takes awhile to see the effects of changes. The stock market is good which means investors have faith, which means they're investing, and those investments will have a payback to our pockets eventually.

Yeah I agree. I will be moving to a cheaper place next year.

It’s getting too expensive.

I lost my job this month. My boss is terrified and about to lose everything.

Gas here is up 15 cents from year to date low.

September is preparedness month. President Trump signs a proclamation every year about it. I take it as a warning that one of these Octobers is going to be RED so I fill up the freezer and cabinets extra full. Like a submarine leaving port.

Whatever "the plan" is it doesn't need a lot of extraneous casualties getting in the way of "the plan". We need to be ready to take care of ourselves during any eventuality and stay out of the White Hats way. I don't know what that looks like but not needing to go into town for a month or so probably wouldn't hurt their feelings.

Live your life and trust that you are here at this place and time for a reason. We are witnesses, actors, and frens.

Endeavor to persevere.

Expect the economy to keep accelerating. The US GDP is about $29T. Trump has secured $17T of investment. If you divide that by 5 years, that is about $3T a year. We may be looking at double digit growth.

If you vested in metals. Congrats.

Me? Never had much faith in the economy particularly. He inherited a bomb that we were unlikely to tariff and tax our way out of.

Simply because the math didn’t add up. American Corporations willingly adopted unsustainable Business models and shady tactics to jack shareholder value. And have subsequently operated under such models for decades. Which introduces a level of ingraining it in Corporate Culture. Infrastructure is in the toilet nationwide. Most of the measures of ‘Economic Health’ are arbitrary numbers that the Financial Industry can massage to say whatever they want them to say.

Expertise is in some cases quite literally dying out from old age. Industries that were also the lifeblood of entire towns only a few decades ago are now considered niche online businesses. Corporations want to keep importing H1-Bs for their bottom line. They also don’t want to pay to train anyone American. Hence ‘Entry-Level’ jobs requiring several years of experience. Because they believe the Degree Mills and Tradeschools already took care of it. So it’s not their responsibility. They subsequently bitch the kids can’t do shit and only have theoretical knowledge at best. That’s not even considering the political cancer that currently infests the teaching staff at most of those institutions they do their damndest to pass on to the students.

Marriage rates are so low it’s actually dropping divorce rates. Which is negatively affecting the rates of family formation.

We are missing at a conservative estimate 40 million Americans at the moment from Gen Z alone due to abortion. They’d be aging into the workforce in mass right about now. Which only aggravates the shortages multiple industries are facing. That’s not even counting the missing of the Millennials and Gen X.

Expertise in some industries is quite literally dying out. With the majority of workers in it being 60-70 years old. Unions in some industries maintain a stranglehold on things and are resistant to change. Perfect example being the Dockworkers Union who tried to paralyze the country.

The Datacenters that are springing up everywhere. We don’t have the Energy infrastructure to support. As they’d need to essentially start crapping out Nuclear Reactors to meet demand.

Local and State Governments are also demanding their pounds of flesh. For really just existing and not doing much to address any problem the public is dealing with. Then acting pissed and outraged screeching about Separation of Powers when Uncle Sam decides to make it his problem. As people finally decided to go around them.

The can long kicked down the road of unresolved racial tensions doesn’t seem to want to be kicked down the road anymore. Much to the shock of some who want to pretend otherwise.

HR in most companies is rapidly becoming a bottleneck. Actively detrimental to hiring practices. Further complicating the issue is its often staffed with Women. So any move to start slicing HR is going to cause issues with the Harpies.

AI is still a thing. And frankly people are still testing its limits and trying to find out where it is and isn’t viable. Which will undoubtedly affect the economy wherever it settles.

We’re also looking at personal Robots potentially being actually viable for mass deployment and production within the decade. Maybe two. With their capabilities potentially becoming rather expansive with AI integration.

There’s god knows how many networks of special interests all working to manipulate public perception for their own ends and stir up conflict.

Point being. The list of problems he inherited is endless. Most of them also ultimately bear some weight on the economic health of the country. He can put out a dozen fires but there’s still a thousand burning merrily.

I am very glad I bought, over the past 5 years, silver bullion at under 25 an oz. My personal rule is to never buy over that. I have acquired 430 oz. It is nail biting time. My son and I are thinking of paying off the remaining mortgage. I sit on it like a broody hen, thinking it may go up higher, and on the other hand, should we drive to Burlington and cash it in now. I have always known how to budget and 50 ways to stretch a healthy meal, soups, stews, etc, There is no denying that things are tight, and will probably get tighter. I would blame price gouging, but I think its more than that. I live in a rural state that has many small villages with small private grocery, convenient stores, the owners are getting by on making sandwiches and pizza and selling gas and beer and tobacco, they are very understocked with everything else, because they cannot make a profit with the cost of things. We were all warned to prep, stock up, etc. but I have been hitting the pantry in my house and using up some of the stock we have, to save weekly money. I feel bad for folks in the suburbs and cities, I am able to go directly to a choice of farmers and buy in bulk, especially now, large bushels of broccoli for freezing, half a steer, half a pig, bushels of seconds of tomatos to make sauce. It is sad that in many of the agricultural states, people have no local farms to buy from. I think we have to hold on for the change. We have to break down major agribusiness for this to change. When 3 or 4 companies are controlling the beef, chicken and pork business, when corn is used for gasoline and high fructose, and farmers get addicted to those subsidy checks, no one is growing food for their own region. If you live in one of the areas that rely on big supermarket chains, I would suggest taking a weekend off, get your truck or van, and drive out into the boonies, find a smaller farm or farmstand, and load up on large amounts of potatos, winter squash, onions, carrots. There is no less expensive meat now unless you buy half a cow and know a butcher to cut it up for you, and that aint cheap. Learn how to cook and spread it out. Save that whole chicken or roast for Sunday dinner, the rest of the week get in that kitchen and make your soups and stews, bake your own bread, make chili instead of burgers, make stir fries. The whole food system has been forced to grow for exports and foreign aid, corporate buyers, and this has been going on for decades, it is going to take awhile for it to switch and become sustainable for the American consumer. I think we should stop being quiet about it, too.

Check your state and local tax increases…depending on the communism level in your location that can be a huge part of the cost of your life. Calirado isn’t a shithole just because the gay dual citizen governor who bought a kid with his ‘partner’ adding illegal fees to everything?? Could it?

Drove cross country last couple days. Gasoline is down…lowest was $2.65 somewhere in the middle. Calirado most places is around $3. Hochul’s regime is priced around about the same in the west part of the hellhole of NYS.