Hey! I'm still waiting for the cost of my groceries to go down, and my $5000 DOGE refund... I could care duck all about a golden phone!

Indeed. Around here, fuel prices are finally on the way down. Getting
close to where they were before COVID. That was supposedly what was
keeping food, and other merchandise, prices up. However, IIRC, fuel prices were the reason before the tariffs started so who knows? :(

Mike


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I just basically take everything that comes from this administration

> with a grain of salt. Keeping my fingers crossed that we can get
> enough bodies of either moderates or democrats that it will break
> the majority and there will some sort of balance..

There's talk about the coming mid-term elections there could possibly
geve the Democrats a majority in the Senate. That might help some.

It just seems odd that Trump gets away with doing anything he wants
and no other political body reins him in. He almost declares wars
on States and is talking about invading Greenland, possibly followed
by Canada, and they just let him go with it..

Now he's gone beyond using Tariffs to generate business (whether
that actually works or not) and is weaponizing them against any
country that disagrees with his plans for world domination..

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Some things don't make sense too.. Apparently due to tariffs and such

>> we have lost a lot of our pork exports and yet the price of pork is
>> higher than ever in the stores. Shouldn't having more than you can sell
>> lower the price?

Yes it should, so long as the pork producers are producing the same amount.

> If they stopped breading hogs upon hearing the tariff news, maybe not.

Could be, but I think what's really going on here is, we lost a
lot of cattle stock due to lack of pasture from recent droughts so
beef is harder to get and has gone up significantly in price.
That lets pork suppliers charge more without worrying about people
just buying beef instead..

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Yes it should, so long as the pork producers are producing the same amount.

> If they stopped breading hogs upon hearing the tariff news, maybe not.

Could be, but I think what's really going on here is, we lost a
lot of cattle stock due to lack of pasture from recent droughts so
beef is harder to get and has gone up significantly in price.
That lets pork suppliers charge more without worrying about people
just buying beef instead..

That would also potentially put a higher demand on pork, too.

Mike


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Hey! I'm still waiting for the cost of my groceries to go down, and my $50

>> DOGE refund... I could care duck all about a golden phone!

Indeed. Around here, fuel prices are finally on the way down. Getting

>close to where they were before COVID. That was supposedly what was
>keeping food, and other merchandise, prices up. However, IIRC, fuel
>prices were the reason before the tariffs started so who knows? :(

When you think about it, you could double fuel costs and the cost
increase on your can of beans would go up by half a cent, if that.
But the stores all take advantage of the 'bad news' and use it to
inflate prices to ridiculous levels, often up by 50% or more, with
less chance of people complaining because they have heard the bad
news and blame it on someone else..

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Indeed. Around here, fuel prices are finally on the way down. Getting

>close to where they were before COVID. That was supposedly what was
>keeping food, and other merchandise, prices up. However, IIRC, fuel
>prices were the reason before the tariffs started so who knows? :(

When you think about it, you could double fuel costs and the cost
increase on your can of beans would go up by half a cent, if that.
But the stores all take advantage of the 'bad news' and use it to
inflate prices to ridiculous levels, often up by 50% or more, with
less chance of people complaining because they have heard the bad
news and blame it on someone else..

It doesn't help when all the news channels have talking heads on telling
people that the increase in fuel prices will cause food, etc., to "go up by
X%" -- and "X%" always comes out to much higher than half-a-cent.

Mike


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Hello Rob!

When you think about it, you could double fuel costs and
the cost increase on your can of beans would go up by half
a cent, if that. But the stores all take advantage of the
'bad news' and use it to inflate prices to ridiculous
levels, often up by 50% or more, with less chance of
people complaining because they have heard the bad news
and blame it on someone else..

I am seeing ridiculous increases on books.

Pocketbooks/mass-market are up from 11.99 to 14.99

Many hardcovers typically between 29.99 to 35.99 are now over
40$

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's
the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.




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August Abolins wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's
the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.

Of course, they're passing the profits onto the authors to offset the
higher costs of living, right?


right?



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Hello Kurt!

** On Monday 12.01.26 - 08:59, you wrote to me:

August Abolins wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's
the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.

Of course, they're passing the profits onto the authors to offset the
higher costs of living, right?

right?

Beyond the contracted "advance", I would think that authors
*DO* get an increase factored in. Afterall, their "royalty"
portion is probably based on the Sales $.

The book industry in Canada is fondly subsidized by the
government.

Cost-of-Living is not 20%-50% within one or even three years.
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