Feb 042011
The mainstream media is in full “recovery-story” mode with the unemployment figures. There is no reason to believe the headlines or the touts. Employment is not improving.
But this is about inflation. You know, the inflation that is not here, there or anywhere. Here is Chuck Butler’s summary:
Here are the 6-month price percentage moves in some of the things people need to live with:
- Cotton = +125.7%
- Sugar = +82.6%
- Corn = +59.0%
- Coffee = +41.4%
- Rice = +40.5%
- Oats = +36.6%
- Copper = +36.1%
- Lumber = +33.8%
- Oil = +25.1%
Well… I have to wonder if Big Ben is ready to acknowledge that inflation is already all around us?
[...] No Inflation Here! (economicnoise.com) [...]
I won’t argue that inflation is here, just a quick comment about the site format. The archive articles at the bottom of the main page are cut off on the right hand side if your readers either a) do not have a wide screen monitor (like me), or b) do not have their browser set to maximum size. It appears that your webmaster has the fields set to a designated number of pixels, rather than a percentage of screen width, which is a better approach, as it works well for all monitor sizes and browser settings.
It’s an easy change to make.
Thanks for listening to my whining.
Ed,
Thanks for the notice. Yours is the first one that I have received regarding this problem. I am a bit uncertain as to which area you are referring to. Is it in the right-hand column where the last items are “Assorted Wisdom” or in the main column where excerpts from older posts appear down to the very bottom of the page? If it is the latter, is this the first time you experienced the problem? I noticed that the four-column wide excerpts are no longer equal size which may be due to one of the images. The podcast post image just appeared down there and that may be causing the problem.
Anyone else experiencing problems, please let me know.
Monty
Actualy Monty, the numbers are worse- far worse…
If one looks at the rolling 12 months, it is very disheartening. This WILL hit the grocery bill hard…
http://markets.ft.com/markets/commodities.asp