There was a 1960 episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” in which Hitchcock stepped into a time machine and announced he was going to travel forward to 1975. He then introduced the episode we saw. After the episode had played out, we saw Hitchcock back in the time machine and he told us that 1975 was very good and he was going to stay there. He then found that he owed fifteen years back taxes so he traveled back to 1960.
In the real 1975, which I remember, I had not learned of Hitchcock. I later learned of him through his book collections for older children such as “Daring Detectives” and “Sinister Spies”. I also knew the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books in which Hitchcock appeared as a character until his real life death in 1980.
Inflation rises and falls as much by the efforts of presidents/councils as by the market. But it actually comes down to the fact that manufacturers/producers will push prices to suit themselves at any time it can be done without a glance from the government.
Example, In the last 10 years, product sizes/amounts have shrunk while prices for the same items have risen, almost exponentially. That was not only the result of tax increase or other government effort. It also was because the top tier needed geld to enjoy their playgrounds.
That and the rise of the hedge funds roistering through the funds and properties of vulnerable companies, then selling off the corpses without a single AHEM from those hogging it up at the public trough on the Potomac.
We had serious inflation in the latter part of the Nixon years and all through the Ford and Carter years. It was Reagan that finally beat it.(One contributing factor to inflation was that the country’s fiscal and monetary policies were pushing in opposite directions.)
Yakety Sax 4 days ago
The future ain’t cheap!
saywhatwhat 4 days ago
People who complained about the “Biden inflation” didn’t remember the Nixon inflation.
Calvinist1966 4 days ago
There was a 1960 episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” in which Hitchcock stepped into a time machine and announced he was going to travel forward to 1975. He then introduced the episode we saw. After the episode had played out, we saw Hitchcock back in the time machine and he told us that 1975 was very good and he was going to stay there. He then found that he owed fifteen years back taxes so he traveled back to 1960.
In the real 1975, which I remember, I had not learned of Hitchcock. I later learned of him through his book collections for older children such as “Daring Detectives” and “Sinister Spies”. I also knew the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books in which Hitchcock appeared as a character until his real life death in 1980.
sandpiper 4 days ago
Inflation rises and falls as much by the efforts of presidents/councils as by the market. But it actually comes down to the fact that manufacturers/producers will push prices to suit themselves at any time it can be done without a glance from the government.
Example, In the last 10 years, product sizes/amounts have shrunk while prices for the same items have risen, almost exponentially. That was not only the result of tax increase or other government effort. It also was because the top tier needed geld to enjoy their playgrounds.
That and the rise of the hedge funds roistering through the funds and properties of vulnerable companies, then selling off the corpses without a single AHEM from those hogging it up at the public trough on the Potomac.
mfrasca 3 days ago
Whip Inflation Now!
Shonkin 3 days ago
We had serious inflation in the latter part of the Nixon years and all through the Ford and Carter years. It was Reagan that finally beat it.(One contributing factor to inflation was that the country’s fiscal and monetary policies were pushing in opposite directions.)
ncorgbl 3 days ago
Every Republican/conservative president since 1929 had a depression or recession, some had two.
brklnbern 3 days ago
Imagine looking forward to 1975.
brklnbern 3 days ago
If only this poor duo knew how crazy Bideflation would be, dwarfing all predictions of inflation.