INFLATION!

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE For those that do not understand how the economy really works, inflation was predicted before even the pandemic was officially declared, I wrote a whole two part article on my blog, as to what will happen to the prices as a result, every thing I had mentioned came true, similarly when we started the war in Ukraine, I posted again about its negative effects on the prices, the shortages and the deficits, nothing unknown, yes our own policies are to blame, but it is a shared blame, by the left and the right, then there is the supply chain problem with the war in Gaza. Still if we compare our inflation with the rest of the world we are luckier than many others, since our food supply is still mainly local. Much of the inflation here can still be blamed on price gouging by corporations that are boosting their own profits. We don't want the government to control profits and the government (both parties) is beholden to their rich donors. It is same people here that want the government to stay out of the business's business are the one blaming the government for inflation, get some knowledge about how the world, that we live in, actually works. Ofcourse there will be another bout of inflation as a result of recent hurricanes, no only in housing costs, but also in agricultural products, the interst rate may be staying up a while. M. N. R. 10 OCTOBER 2024

DEJA VU, AGAIN A5

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE DEJA VU, AGAIN A5 I feel philosophical, I philosophical means depressed or down. But I am not depressed or down, I am numb, like that Pink Floyd song, "Comfortably Numb". Just that though, comfortable, don't know really what that song is about. "Like a distant ship"! I decided that I would be detached, not like a hermit though, just detached, "Watching the wheels", but watching the wheels is not really "detachment" one is still involved "in watching", it is difficult to be a true "Stoic" even, much as one would hope. I thought about how people really think, how do we become "something", as in something "definable", ofcourse we only want to be defined as someone accepted by those around us, so we end up emulating those we keep company with. We don't choose to, but maybe we do exactly that. We do have choices, we say, but what if we, ourselves, limit our choices? There is a tray full of beads of many colors and you wish to make a necklace per se, and you wish to make a necklace of red beads, so regardless of how colors are available, you only choose the red beads for your necklace, disregarding all others. Same is true of our knowledge, we only choose what we like. There was a study of what people order at a restaurant, it was discovered that most people, often, ordered the same items, regardless of all the many other choices available. We are like that. It is said that America is almost equally divided, I don't believe it to be true atall, the fact is that we are only GIVEN two choices, take it or leave it. There is no way that exactly half the population has exactly the same preferences as all others in that group. We are not choosing, we are told what we must choose, take it or leave it, this is not how a "democracy" should work. M. N. R. 03 OCTOBER 2024