The surging demands versus decreased productions are the two most important reasons for inflation.
US population have increased, consumptions increased therefore. While a lot lesser man power to produce these goods. Sept. alone had the lowest employment record of 180,000 versus the average and expected number of 500,000.
To solve these problems, what must the Federal government do? It is simple. Put more people to work, stop restrictions on businesses, especially the manufacturing industries. Currently, there are 11 million plus jobs available. Prior months, president Biden had been paying people not to work. They had exhausted their unemployment insurance to bankruptcy. To solve deficits, the unemployment insurance had doubled rates deducted from payroll. Yes, payroll cost rise along with the benefits. Another factor that contributes to inflation. High overhead cost, plus less labor force combined makes up rise of inflation.
What about energy? US are mostly in the danger zone on energy supplies. Not only present consumer demands versus supplies. Worst that could happen is when war breaks out, and with US importing our oil and energy sources from OPEC , or other countries, US will be at a loss to defend itself, when world suppliers become our enemies. President Biden is baiting the US for the demise of this country, if war happens.
President Biden has put our country to a very risky position by closing our oil production, and rely from the OPEC supplies.
The government has to balance risks and the so called climate change. Instead, the LIBS have gone to the extremes to cuddle the climate change theories which is not a smart decision, but a very dangerous proposition.
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Food Prices Hit Highest Level in a Decade
BY TOM OZIMEK October 9, 2021 Updated: October 10, 2021
Food prices have risen to their highest levels in a decade on the back of tightening supply conditions coupled with robust demand, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The FAO’s food price index, which measures world food commodity prices, has surged by 32.8 percent in the 12 months through September, coming in at a reading of 130 points, a level not seen since 2011. On a month-over-month basis, the index rose 1.2 percent.
Accounting for the bulk of the rise in the index were higher prices of most cereals and vegetable oils.
The FAO vegetable oil price index was up 60 percent in September from a year earlier, and 1.7 percent higher than in August. The cereal price measure was up 27.3 percent over the year last month, and 2 percent from August.
Dairy and sugar prices also rose in September by an over-the-year 15.2 percent and 53.5 percent, respectively, while the meat price index was up 26.3 percent above its year-earlier level.
While much of the inflation story has been focused on surging energy costs and products affected by the semiconductor chip shortage such as used cars, rising food cost signals are increasingly flashing red.
As the U.S. economy rebounds, packaged food companies are grappling with inflation, with Conagra Brands Inc. saying on Oct. 7 that it would increase prices again on its frozen meals and snacks.
Conagra said it was facing rising costs of ingredients including edible oils, proteins, and grains, forcing it to increase prices on frozen goods by 3.5 percent and on staple meals by 3.3 percent.
Food-makers General Mills, Campbell Soup, and J.M. Smucker also have raised wholesale prices in response to rising ingredient and freight costs.
Pork and beef prices have surged in the past few months, while the Labor Department’s August inflation report showed that meat, poultry, fish, and eggs were up 8 percent over the past year and 15.7 percent from prices in August 2019, before the pandemic. Beef prices jumped 12.2 percent over the past year, and bacon was up 17 percent during the same period.
Experts say increasing energy costs around the world could exacerbate the problem.
“It’s this combination of things that’s beginning to get very worrying,” Abdolreza Abbassian, senior economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, told Bloomberg in a recent interview. “It’s not just the isolated food-price numbers, but all of them together. I don’t think anyone two or three months ago was expecting the energy prices to get this strong.”
Food price inflation is also driving up consumer expectations for future price increases.
The New York Fed’s August survey of consumer expectations showed that Americans anticipate food prices to rise by 7.9 percent in a year, higher than the overall inflation expectation of 5.2 percent.
Federal Reserve officials have repeatedly characterized the current bout of inflation as “transitory” though they have increasingly expressed concern about the risk of a de-anchoring of inflationary expectations. That’s where confidence in the “transitory” narrative falls and people start to believe and behave as if inflation will be far stickier than previously believed, impacting wage and price-setting behavior and potentially even sparking the kind of upward wage-price spiral that bedeviled the economy in the 1970s.
Yup...inflation has never been easy to predict and continues to befuddle everyone...except the consumer. The know when they see it.
Radiance3 wrote:
The surging demands versus decreased productions are the two most important reasons for inflation.
US population have increased, consumptions increased therefore. While a lot lesser man power to produce these goods. Sept. alone had the lowest employment record of 180,000 versus the average and expected number of 500,000.
To solve these problems, what must the Federal government do? It is simple. Put more people to work, stop restrictions on businesses, especially the manufacturing industries. Currently, there are 11 million plus jobs available. Prior months, president Biden had been paying people not to work. They had exhausted their unemployment insurance to bankruptcy. To solve deficits, the unemployment insurance had doubled rates deducted from payroll. Yes, payroll cost rise along with the benefits. Another factor that contributes to inflation. High overhead cost, plus less labor force combined makes up rise of inflation.
What about energy? US are mostly in the danger zone on energy supplies. Not only present consumer demands versus supplies. Worst that could happen is when war breaks out, and with US importing our oil and energy sources from OPEC , or other countries, US will be at a loss to defend itself, when world suppliers become our enemies. President Biden is baiting the US for the demise of this country, if war happens.
President Biden has put our country to a very risky position by closing our oil production, and rely from the OPEC supplies.
The government has to balance risks and the so called climate change. Instead, the LIBS have gone to the extremes to cuddle the climate change theories which is not a smart decision, but a very dangerous proposition.
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Food Prices Hit Highest Level in a Decade
BY TOM OZIMEK October 9, 2021 Updated: October 10, 2021
Food prices have risen to their highest levels in a decade on the back of tightening supply conditions coupled with robust demand, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The FAO’s food price index, which measures world food commodity prices, has surged by 32.8 percent in the 12 months through September, coming in at a reading of 130 points, a level not seen since 2011. On a month-over-month basis, the index rose 1.2 percent.
Accounting for the bulk of the rise in the index were higher prices of most cereals and vegetable oils.
The FAO vegetable oil price index was up 60 percent in September from a year earlier, and 1.7 percent higher than in August. The cereal price measure was up 27.3 percent over the year last month, and 2 percent from August.
Dairy and sugar prices also rose in September by an over-the-year 15.2 percent and 53.5 percent, respectively, while the meat price index was up 26.3 percent above its year-earlier level.
While much of the inflation story has been focused on surging energy costs and products affected by the semiconductor chip shortage such as used cars, rising food cost signals are increasingly flashing red.
As the U.S. economy rebounds, packaged food companies are grappling with inflation, with Conagra Brands Inc. saying on Oct. 7 that it would increase prices again on its frozen meals and snacks.
Conagra said it was facing rising costs of ingredients including edible oils, proteins, and grains, forcing it to increase prices on frozen goods by 3.5 percent and on staple meals by 3.3 percent.
Food-makers General Mills, Campbell Soup, and J.M. Smucker also have raised wholesale prices in response to rising ingredient and freight costs.
Pork and beef prices have surged in the past few months, while the Labor Department’s August inflation report showed that meat, poultry, fish, and eggs were up 8 percent over the past year and 15.7 percent from prices in August 2019, before the pandemic. Beef prices jumped 12.2 percent over the past year, and bacon was up 17 percent during the same period.
Experts say increasing energy costs around the world could exacerbate the problem.
“It’s this combination of things that’s beginning to get very worrying,” Abdolreza Abbassian, senior economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, told Bloomberg in a recent interview. “It’s not just the isolated food-price numbers, but all of them together. I don’t think anyone two or three months ago was expecting the energy prices to get this strong.”
Food price inflation is also driving up consumer expectations for future price increases.
The New York Fed’s August survey of consumer expectations showed that Americans anticipate food prices to rise by 7.9 percent in a year, higher than the overall inflation expectation of 5.2 percent.
Federal Reserve officials have repeatedly characterized the current bout of inflation as “transitory” though they have increasingly expressed concern about the risk of a de-anchoring of inflationary expectations. That’s where confidence in the “transitory” narrative falls and people start to believe and behave as if inflation will be far stickier than previously believed, impacting wage and price-setting behavior and potentially even sparking the kind of upward wage-price spiral that bedeviled the economy in the 1970s.
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Food production hasn't yet fully recovered from shutdowns during the pandemic; there are hundreds of container ships lined up at anchor outside US ports due to shore labor shortages and too few truck drivers. It's not hard to understand. Economists warm potential Xmas shoppers to buy NOW because the shelves will be empty in December.
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One of the problems there is Biden depends on importing manufactured goods from foreign countries like China. China has made the US the biggest market consumers of their products.
Get real. That has been the case for a long time. Ivanka Trump even had all her rags made there—and that’s where Trump’s neckties are made.
kemmer wrote:
Get real. That has been the case for a long time. Ivanka Trump even had all her rags made there—and that’s where Trump’s neckties are made.
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kemmer, do you ever use your head? Is there any brain left there? I have displayed the statistics on inflation during the Trump administration versus Biden at present and still going up. It is getting worst. You are expecting for the stimulus of Biden? The $3.5 trillion. The biggest in history. Bigger than costs of all world wars and local wars combined, and all expenditures combined since history.
Biden is bankrupting this country to put everybody at same level except him, his family, and his team elites.
Biden is converting this country to Marxist government.
Biden's inflation in 2021 is sky high.
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kemmer, do you ever use your head? Is there any brain left there? I have displayed the statistics on inflation during the Trump administration versus Biden at present and still going up. It is getting worst. You are expecting for the stimulus of Biden? The $3.5 trillion. The biggest in history. Bigger than costs of all world wars and local wars combined, and all expenditures combined since history.
Biden is bankrupting this country to put everybody at same level except him, his family, and his team elites.
Biden is converting this country to Marxist government.
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You didn’t mind when Bush and Trump gave tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy which cost the economy $3.9 trillion. Biden’s $3.5 T will benefit everybody.
kemmer wrote:
You didn’t mind when Bush and Trump gave tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy which cost the economy $3.9 trillion. Biden’s $3.5 T will benefit everybody.
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Prove that, except your mouth spews empty lies. You are not even worth my time kemmer. But for the last read it.
That $3.9 trillion was the economic growth and which allowed people to work. Latest Trump unemployment was 3.5%. That means 96.5% of the American people were productively working.
How are you Biden people doing now? He rationed the handouts lucrative food stamps, child care, allowance for education, allowance for medical care, housing.
Where are the money coming from that he funds to these idiots, who prefer to stay home because Biden supports them with the taxpayers' money. That is why they don't want to return to work. They get more by staying homes, waiting for Biden's handouts. More are coming from the $3.5 trillion. Watch out the 43% (28%+15%) corporate tax will increase all prices.
"Inflation" is easy to predict. "Deflation" is the "enemy" of the privately controlled "central bank." When the economy is American, i.e., people are working and earning and saving money to spend on their needs, frugally, this causes a deflation, thereby threatening a loss of power of the "investors" of the central bank, and, they "inflate the currency." When a businessman, who believes in the free market and champions the private sector becomes president and tells the FED to bring the interest rate on the currency printed from nothing, as President Trump did, they react with "inflation." The FED care only about the bankers. Now we see with clarity who is on the side of the bankers and who is on the side of the American Republic.
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