2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?

[troph 24929]

mayo is for ham sandwiches (both sides please), mustard is for bugers, don't you know National Texas Whataburger Day was a few days ago? mustard only you united libtard/trump lovers.*

 

*burger talk is about as useful to the inflation thread as the last 20-30 posts. what a fucking wasteland.

[52-80 19279]

11 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

 

Mayo on a hamburger with cheese, ketchup, and pickles is how the founding fathers and God intended it.

+onions

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

 

[Trey3216 15380]

The only time a burger should be allowed to have even a hint of mayo is if it has bacon on it.  Then it should be real mayo, with ketchup, and mustard, and jalapenos, red onions or grilled white onions, pickles.... and that's it (unless you want your varietal of cheese as well.   I don't do cheese unless it's pepper jack).   

[troph 24929]

11 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

The only time a burger should be allowed to have even a hint of mayo is if it has bacon on it.  Then it should be real mayo, with ketchup, and mustard, and jalapenos, red onions or grilled white onions, pickles.... and that's it (unless you want your varietal of cheese as well.   I don't do cheese unless it's pepper jack).   

if you want a BLT just order a BLT.

[jimmyjazz 46478]

Gentlemen and 'woman . . . mayo + ketchup is a poor man's Russian dressing, and it definitely belongs on a burger.  Said burger must have cheese, and is amplified with a nice crisp piece of lettuce, a juicy slice of tomato, and a couple of rings of raw yellow onion.

The enb.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Gentlemen and 'woman . . . mayo + ketchup is a poor man's Russian dressing, and it definitely belongs on a burger.  Said burger must have cheese, and is amplified with a nice crisp piece of lettuce, a juicy slice of tomato, and a couple of rings of raw yellow onion.

The enb.

[Incredulity 11692]

throw some relish in the mayo + ketchup and you've got, "secret sauce" which is delicous on a burger and to dip some fries in.

[UT_OB1 2227]

2 hours ago, troph said:

burger talk is about as useful to the inflation thread as the last 20-30 posts. what a fucking wasteland.

Spandex / elastic in jeans, especially the waste line is one humans greatest recent inventions and helps deal with inflation. 

Edited August 14, 2023 by UT_OB1

[troph 24929]

3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Gentlemen and 'woman . . . mayo + ketchup is a poor man's Russian dressing, and it definitely belongs on a burger.  Said burger must have cheese, and is amplified with a nice crisp piece of lettuce, a juicy slice of tomato, and a couple of rings of raw yellow onion.

The enb.

If ever a post deserved the bird but without a neg this would be it. This is gotta be like a Canada or Wisconsin burger. Sounds gross as hell. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26684]

5 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Mayo on a hamburger with cheese, ketchup, and pickles is how the founding fathers and God intended it. Same for hot dogs. And don’t forget some extra mayo (preferably spicy) to dip your hamburger and fries into. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

Anyone that puts ketchup on a burger is a child.

[Js1 85759]

4 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Anyone that puts ketchup on a burger is a child.

[jimmyjazz 46478]

Now do beans in chili.

[fattyflattie 4639]

Mayo, mustard, bacon, cheese, grilled onions.  

[WBT 20744]

All this mayo and ketchup talk has my neg finger twitching.  Bunch of futureman socks in this thread

[Captainant 27973]

1 hour ago, WBT said:

All this mayo and ketchup talk has my neg finger twitching.  Bunch of futureman socks in this thread

I'd bet you'd relish negging a futureman sock 

[troph 24929]

It’s pretty simple really.

mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickles*, American or cheddar cheese, jalapeños and bacon optional. 
 

Anything else is betacuck, commie, Q, coconspirator conspiracy bullshit.
 

dill pickles because shit people, make NO assumptions fucking bread and butter my ass. 

Edited August 15, 2023 by troph

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Fly your hamburger freak flag high.

[troph 24929]

8 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Fly your hamburger freak flag high.

At least I made this thread more readable. 
 

YOY inflation coming down, monthly looking okay. Not evenly applied sure. Pain from last 24 months still around. Not sure the next 6-9 months but what occurred Jan through July was easy to see. 
 

 

[Snake Diggity 4628]

You motherfuckers

[troph 24929]

Retail prices up .7% prior gonna freak.

[Bozo_Casanova 26684]

49 minutes ago, troph said:

It’s pretty simple really.

mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickles*, American or cheddar cheese, jalapeños and bacon optional. 
 

Anything else is betacuck, commie, Q, coconspirator conspiracy bullshit.
 

dill pickles because shit people, make NO assumptions fucking bread and butter my ass. 

All these mayo and ketchup people got groomed and have now become groomers themselves.
I can deal with onions, however. 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

36 minutes ago, troph said:

Retail prices up .7% prior gonna freak.

The price of Mayo is too damn high!!!

[Storm the Field 5305]

58 minutes ago, troph said:

Retail prices up .7% prior gonna freak.

Today's report was retail sales, not retail prices.

Quote

 

Consumer spending held up well in July as inflation slowed, with retail sales turning in a stronger than expected showing for the month, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

The advanced retail sales report showed a seasonally adjusted increase of 0.7% for the month, better than the 0.4% Dow Jones estimate. Excluding autos, sales rose a robust 1%, also against a 0.4% forecast. Both readings were the best monthly gains since January.

As the numbers are not adjusted for inflation, they showed a consumer able to keep ahead of price increases that have been prevalent over the past two years. The consumer price index rose 0.2% on the month, indicating solid demand.

 

 

[troph 24929]

6 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

Today's report was retail sales, not retail prices.

 

yeah I heard it on the radio walking in the door. whatever it's .7%.  POINT SEVEN PERCENT!  THE WORLD IS ENDING!!!! IT'S TOO HIGH, IT'S TOO LOW. OMFG!

[Biff Tannen 45768]

On 8/14/2023 at 1:24 PM, troph said:

someone always wants mayo on their burger - probably a trump lover

how dare you

[troph 24929]

45 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

how dare you

Indicate me. 

[UT_OB1 2227]

1 hour ago, troph said:

Indicate me. 

Indicate what for you?

[troph 24929]

1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

Indicate what for you?

[Anastasis 23512]

Mayo acceptability depends on style and dressing of the burger. If there is lettuce on the burger, mayo is always an acceptable condiment imo. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

This seems to be the most relevant paragraph from the FOMC minutes

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20230726.pdf

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The staff continued to judge that the risks to the baseline projection for real activity were tilted to the downside. Risks to the staff’s baseline inflation forecast were seen as skewed to the upside, given the possibility that inflation dynamics would prove to be more persistent than expected or that further adverse shocks to supply conditions might occur. Moreover, the additional monetary policy tightening that would be necessitated by higher or more persistent inflation represented a downside risk to the projection for real activity

Also this one

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Participants cited upside risks to inflation, including those associated with scenarios in which recent supply chain improvements and favorable commodity price trends did not continue or in which aggregate demand failed to slow by an amount sufficient to restore price stability over time, possibly leading to more persistent elevated inflation or an unanchoring of inflation expectations.

 

Edited August 16, 2023 by Neonmoon

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

33 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

given the possibility that inflation dynamics would prove to be more persistent than expected

I was told it was transitory.

[Nathan Jessep 147]

 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Nathan Jessep said:

 

I think a 2% target is good. But seems the only real tool is interest rates and it's not so clear that has a direct inflation impact.

[Incredulity 11692]

9 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

I think a 2% target is good. But seems the only real tool is interest rates and it's not so clear that has a direct inflation impact.

"long and variable lags".

[Harrison Stafford 3353]

On 8/16/2023 at 1:46 PM, Cheeseweasel said:

I was told it was transitory.

[washparkhorn 9939]

A consensus is forming on the source of inflation:

 

[52-80 19279]

Ergo, concordantly

[Incredulity 11692]

I am the Architect 

[Nathan Jessep 147]

 

[fattyflattie 4639]

7 hours ago, Nathan Jessep said:

 

This is one of the major reasons I’d stay completely out of investment houses.   The way the owners got fucked during Covid was a major wake up call.   Wife’s grandmother liquidated about 20 houses over the last few years as she’s in her late 90’s.  Had a shot on any and all of them, and passed on every single one.  

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

19 hours ago, Nathan Jessep said:

 

Interests rates, up.

Repair costs, up.

Energy costs, up.

Labor costs, up.

But yeah, let's squeeze the end of the supply chain and see how that goes.

[BabaYaga 15377]

3 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Interests rates, up.

Repair costs, up.

Energy costs, up.

Labor costs, up.

But yeah, let's squeeze the end of the supply chain and see how that goes.

Price controls are always the answer

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

27 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Price controls are always the answer

Yes, comrade. 

[Captainant 27973]

I wonder when y'all are gonna get some new material besides "any regulation is communism". 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

"Now that all of our donors at BlackRock have purchased most of the real estate, let's regulate the crap out of it and squeeze out the last few the little men. Then when they are gone, BlackRock can go back to fucking everyone over and we'll get our 10%"

[BabaYaga 15377]

23 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Yes, comrade. 

Seriously, rent controls has been tried so many times with a failed track record a mile long.  As I stated a few days ago, the big push now are condo conversions.  The demand is there.  Same with those stupid RTO programs (rent to own).  These large companies can't unload these things fast enough, and great way for them are conversions.  Problem is, they convert at a significantly higher price point, forcing renters out of the units.  Other owners simply slash their maintenance/repair budgets.  Either way, these stupid programs invariable wind up hurting those they were intended to help.  

5 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

"Now that all of our donors at BlackRock have purchased most of the real estate, let's regulate the crap out of it and squeeze out the last few the little men. Then when they are gone, BlackRock can go back to fucking everyone over and we'll get our 10%"

[Bozo_Casanova 26684]

If you need price control for people at the median to afford housing in a within 30mins of work you need to build more housing. If you impose price controls without doing that it benefits incumbent residents but makes affordability worse and disproportionately hurts younger families to an even greater degree than doing nothing. 
 

Edited August 28, 2023 by Bozo_Casanova

[Incredulity 11692]

22 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

work you need to build more housing.

Narrator:  They didn't build more housing