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February 16, 2011
Confirmed: Stagflation™ on the way
Wholesale prices are heading up.
...Shoes, clothes, tires, plastics and other products all cost more at the wholesale level last month, putting pressure on businesses to pass the increases along to their customers...
...Drug prices rose 1.4 percent, the most in almost three years. Prices rose for products throughout the economy...
See, its just "pressure" at the moment, kinda like a zit starting to form. Being patriotic and all, those businesses will of course try to resist that pressure as long as possible, take profit hits, maybe even run losses or go bankrupt as part of their
national obligation, right? They just need to cowboy up and
embrace the vise like squeeze of higher taxes and higher costs. This is the new normal.