Posts Tagged With: inflation
I Accuse (This is Very Political)
Bunnies Will Save Our Economy
My gosh, our economy is under siege from trade wars, inflation, and, of course, lutefisk vendors. These evil influences could very well bring on a severe depression, one so catastropic as to make the Great Depression of 1929 look like a cake walk.
What can we do to protect our livelihoods, our savings?
Fret not, America’s titans of industry are employing the cute, lovable bunny to save the day. They know we’ll feel warm and squooshy inside whever we gaze upon adorable rabbits, so much that we’ll surely basketfull of bunny-promoted products whenever we shop.
The bunny boost to the economy shall overpower trade wars and the like. Our grand economy shall prevail.
All hail, the noble bunny!
The pictures below demonstrate how prevalent bunny-endorsed products have become.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Buy Cheap Butt!
With all the inflation, shrinkflation, and greedflation going on lately, it is indeed heartening to discover that the price of something we all love is actually going down.
Act now! Get your hands on some cheap butt. Mmm.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
My Latch Hook
In my continual quest to find something that will me keep off the streets–where I’d only foment revolution–I’ve taken up latch hooking. This project will also help my manual dexterity and my eye coordination by building neural pathways. So my latch hook project is a win for every one.
I have decided to do Charlie Brown as I like his character very much and I also had a 26-year old kit for him.
Doing my bit to tame inflation, you betcha.
And here’s my progress after two days.
I played Snoopy in 5th grade Santa Anita grammar’s school production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Iggy piggy poo. (I ran out of things to say.)
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Inflation and Shrinkflation
Spoiler alert, this blog is more informative than funny. It’s also has a bit of an opinion.
A local discount store raised the price of most of its goods to $1.25 from its once hallmark, $1.00. This is 25% inflation.
One of the coffee drinks shrank from 11 ounces to 8 ounces. This corresponds to a 37.5% increase in the per-ounce price of the coffee drink. A corresponding 37.5% increase in the 11-ounce can would have made the new price $1.72. The manufacturers chose not to do this. They hope we will continue to see the same price and think nothing has changed.
Disguising price increases by shrinking the product is shrinkflation, the kissing cousin of inflation.
If we combine the 25% price increase over a year ago with the 37.5% increase via shrinkflation, we get the percentage increase per ounce in this coffee drink to be 71.9%. I don’t think we can blame all of this 71.9% on increases in wages. Yet, our policy, especially the Federal Reserve’s, seems to be dedicated to throwing the lowest-earning workers out of jobs.
I had thought up a scathingly brilliant and funny blog early today, but I forgot the idea. So you got this post instead. Modern life can be hard.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Absolutely Accurate Forecasts of Everything for 2023
The world is a chaotic and often terrifying place. What will happen to us? What should we do? It all seems so unpredictable.
But that simply isn’t so.
Listed below are compelling issues and events, that I follow and know something about, and that really must be prognosticated if we are to facing the buffeting events of our future.
And this is what the experts say:
The Stock Market: It will either go up or down. And they are rather certain of that.
Inflation: It will go up, stay the same, or go down.
Severity of the Coming Recession: It will be hard or mild.
Length of Putin’s War in the Ukraine: It will end soon or drag on.
I could go on, but I don’t want to give everything way.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
CHDCPI Says American Inflation is Zero Percent
Economists squabble continually over how to measure inflation. Some argue that the Federal Reserve Bank uses inflation indexes that measure inflation as it had been months ago. This is like trying to drive by looking only at the traffic in the rear view mirror. Another bone of contention is what durable goods, foods, etc. to include in an accurate inflation index.
Ideally, we want to include items that everyone in the entire country uses. As exhaustive research shows there is only one such item.
The Costco(tm) hot dog combo.
It’s yummy and everyone buys it. So I am including it, and it alone, in my consumer price index (CPI.) I call my new CPI, the Costco Hot Dog Combo Price Index or CHDCPI.
Astoundingly enough, the CHDCPI demonstrates conclusively that America’s inflation rate has been ZERO percent for the entire year. Wow. Moreover American inflation has been ZERO PERCENT FOR EVERY YEAR since 1985. i
And if for some reason, your household budget stretches less and less every year, then you need to buy only Costco Hot Dog Combos every year. Make the switch and you’ll notice a big difference.
There.
I foresee a Nobel Prize in Economics in my very near future.
And now a sexy table of supporting evidence.
——–Annual Total
——–Inflation Inflation
Price each year Since 1985
1985 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1986 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1987 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1988 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1989 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1990 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1991 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1992 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1993 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1994 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1995 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1996 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1997 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1998 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
1999 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2000 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2001 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2002 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2003 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2004 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2005 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2006 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2007 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2008 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2009 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2010 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2011 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2012 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2013 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2014 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2015 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2016 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2017 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2018 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2019 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2020 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2021 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
2022 $1.50 0.00% 0.00%
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Angry Man Rants About Causing Us Pain
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.









