price deflation

PRICE DEFLATION
Okay, today and tomorrow are going to be a bit light. Tomorrow is a holiday of course, and I am only coming in long enough to pick up food before I go home and hopefully start the new Stephen King book that was delivered today. Over a thousand pages. Not only did it most likely cost Wal-Mart money to send it to me, more than likely I will enjoy it immensely, and as a plus some time in the future I can use it as a weapon and bludgeon some idiot with it. Three and a half pounds. That is not why I have to give you two short articles of course. I had the Boy Scout food drive last weekend and have had no free time to write the article ahead of time. Sorry, last night was “House” and “The Big Bang Theory” and I wasn’t going to miss those. I need to do this every once in awhile so you miss me terribly and realize you can’t sleep without my screeching words of panic.
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I’m at the Laundromat Sunday and had failed to plan properly for the extra time on my hands after I had gone to get gas and fill up the water jugs. I was feeling like crap, fighting off Barnyard Flu someone had given me ( I’m feeling much better after two days thanks to clean living and the love of Baby Jesus, thanks for asking ) so I can excuse my brain fart on that. I went down the street and bought a USA Today. Right there that should have tipped you off to how ill I was. And there was an article on how we are all saved by our lord and savior Obammy. Why lookee here, you stupid asshats that buy this fishwrap of a so-called newspaper, if you look at the prices of everything, you can see why we are in deflation and inflation is nothing to worry about, but that would also explain why grandma didn’t get a Social Security COLA this year ( or next, and she’ll be darn lucky to even get a check the year after that ). Now, these aren’t my words. That was exactly what the article was saying. Price deflation, so no worries. As you might imagine, even in my weakened and befuddled state I got quite agitated and started glaring daggers at the newspaper, hoping it might spontaneously combust.
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They pay this freak of nature to write this drivel. And they place the article in the Money section, implying that he is an actual economist that was edumacated at a college and everything. I can only conclude two things here. Either he is a supreme idiot and should be castrated ( you’ll note my recent trend of writing about stopping undesirables from procreating- this is a feeble effort to appease my new masters as they take over the globe ) or he is accepting a paycheck to deceive and confuse. Either way, I think eventually a lamp post might not be a bad place for him. Price inflation or price deflation is not the same as the direction of the money supply. You can print up a boatload of currency, add a few zeros to the computer, and that doesn’t automatically correspond to retail prices. Most of the time, sure. But not all of the time. Such as when all retailers are feeling the pinch of decreased consumer purchases and are cutting prices in desperation. The money supply is inflating. And soon you will really notice. But for now the scramble to survive is keeping prices low. We have an inflating money supply with decreasing retail prices. It won’t last long.
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