I found it positively disgusting that i couldn't find these numbers quickly, easily, or in layman terms after spending over half an hour searching the web and online news. I don't have a degree in economics or finance. PPI numbers and CIS numbers and acronym fill in the fucking blank numbers mean nothing to me. It doesn't translate to instant comprehension. All I wanted was the freakin average prices of some consumer goods. Not the increase percent, not the decrease projections. Just. The. Price. I ended up searching item by item, year by year. >_<
it wasn't easy getting verifiable #s - they vary ridiculously. Oh and Wikianswer is a freakin joke - their numbers aren't even realistically close to the statistical documents
In four years...
Dozen Eggs: 2006 = $1.45 / 2007 = $1.56 / 2008 = $2.18 / 2009 = $2.89
White Bread: 2006 = $1.05 / 2007 = $1.25 / 2008 = $1.28 / 2009 = $2.79
Gallon Milk: 2006 = $2.40 / 2007 = $3.13 / 2008 = $2.74 / 2009 = $3.53
Gas: 2005 = $1.78 / 2006 = $2.57 / 2007 = $2.81 / 2008 = $3.55 - $4.10 / 2009 = $2.90
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Good evening Lakota,
If the Morons in Washington don't stop spending money they don't have and printing money with nothing to back it up, you will see:
Eggs = 11.56
bread = 11.16
milk = 14.12
gas = 11.60
If Opec dumps the dollar, you could see this by 2011.
My husband DOES have a degree in Economics. He's been teaching it at the college level for 34 years now.
Don't even get him started on the state of the economy these days.
I like your simple numbers.
Anyone can understand them.
Even those of us WITHOUT Economics degrees. ;-)
p.s. Karl's comment scares me. :(
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