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Posted: 2/5/2012 5:40:53 AM EDT
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Is it just PSA or is everyone hopping there prices up 10 bucks or so on most popular things? I only mention PSA cause that is were I have been shopping lately. AIM does not seem to have gone up yet.
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Geisselle also put out a notice that their trigger prices will be going up.
Unfortunately this is exactly what happens when the Federal Reserve pumps excess currency into the system. Prices increase because the actual value of your dollar declines. 
Oil prices are a good example since they are based on the dollar. Oil prices haven't risen in so much because of demand, the value of are dollar has declined because of the rampant printing of the green back. |
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Geisselle also put out a notice that their trigger prices will be going up. Unfortunately this is exactly what happens when the Federal Reserve pumps excess currency into the system. Prices increase because the actual value of your dollar declines.
Oil prices are a good example since they are based on the dollar. Oil prices haven't risen in so much because of demand, the value of are dollar has declined because of the rampant printing of the green back. Shhhhhh.... you're going to scare the sheeple. 
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Is it just PSA or is everyone hopping there prices up 10 bucks or so on most popular things? I only mention PSA cause that is were I have been shopping lately. AIM does not seem to have gone up yet. AL You need to lay off the whacky weed for your glaucoma (or is it glockoma). 
I think you may be mistaken...PSA has always been $79.99 for as long as I can remember...They have sales for $50 here and there. ETA: Sorry OP...Thought you were just saying lowers...You may be correct. |
| Unfortunately it's life in the business world. Things go up. Raw materials, labor, insurances, other overhead cost. When was the last time your electric company said they were cutting the price of a kilowatt of power, or your insurance company called to say they were dropping premiums 10%. My industry has seen increases in shipping cost over the last few years, everytime oil prices jump, and when oil prices decline my suppliers rarely reduce shipping cost. I have seen 10% increases on heavy items just because trucking cost have got up. Bought tires lately, there way up from 4 or 5 years ago. At some point the retailer must bump the price to cover increased cost. My business can't sell products for what we did 5 years ago. Fortunately with the recession, some suppliers have held prices to try to keep volume up, but other suppliers will bump prices slightly to cover overhead cost from the decrease in sales. It's just the way of the free economy. 5 to 10 % increases are not uncommon. |
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It is not the way of a free economy. In fact, if we still truly had a free market we would be seeing prices decrease as competition and efficiency grows. Everyday it seems we see regulatory agencies approve the merger of large corporations into even larger entities; completely to the detriment of the American consumer and tax payer. Our economy has become a collection of oligopolies.
Inflation is largely a product of the supply of money in circulation (some economists would say inflation is entirely a product of the money supply). The money supply is determined by the privately owned banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve System; which is creating trillions of dollars from thin air every year and using that money to further their own agenda. The resulting devaluation of our currency is nothing less than a hidden tax on Americans as the central banks squander our wealth and productivity. Look, I realize this is a technical forum but this is important so I'll make this brief. Inflation and the resulting elimination of the middle class is not some random occurrence. Our founding fathers were well aware of the dangers the central banks posed to a civilization. This is why they were very specific when they wrote the constitution in giving the power to coin money to congress and not a central bank. Please see my avatar. It's time to wake up. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson |
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