Now nearly everyone complains about inflation.
Everyone is talking about inflation because that's the most obvious sign that things have gone seriously wrong somewhere--if you looked at the stock, real estate, commodity, and crypto markets you'd think that everything was just buzzing along, A-OK. What little effect the pandemic had on businesses wasn't reflected in the stock market. In fact, as I've said here many times the US stock market has been in a bull run for at least 13 years. It's unbelievable.
Last year I started
a thread about the cost of sending things through the post office going up, which I thought was creeping upward at an unusual rate. In 2016 the cost of a 1st class stamp actually went
down from $0.49 to $0.46. Never before had I heard of that happening, but at the time I made that thread I wrote this:
$8.45 it cost me to mail a small Flat Rate Priority Mail box. It was $8.30 just a few days ago. Crazy.
And these days I'm still sending a good amount of mail using the small flat rate boxes--and at the moment it costs $9.45. That's an 11.8% increase in one year if my math is correct. Yikes.