Comments on: US Inflation Up in March on Food, Rent Costs; Inflation Rate at 1.5% https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/us-inflation-up-in-march-on-food-rent-costs-inflation-rate-at-1-5/10001310/ Easily calculate how the buying power of the U.S. dollar has changed from 1913 to 2026. Get inflation rates and U.S. inflation news. Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:47:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Charles Kinney https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/us-inflation-up-in-march-on-food-rent-costs-inflation-rate-at-1-5/10001310/comment-page-1/#comment-37163 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:47:22 +0000 http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/?p=1310#comment-37163 Impressive numbers except I wonder if the desk jockey/number crunchers actually go food shopping? Miniscule amounts for food inflation. Reality check in my location, Reading, PA. Meat has went up a minimum of 50%, something that cost $2.50 a pound is now $5.00 (or more). This includes all meats. Fixed income people are crashing trying to buy enough food to last each month.

In general grocery items it is the same way. Very high % increases in vegetables and the like.

I’ve read up and they continue to blame droughts, sickness (ie. chickens) and all that stuff. I am very skeptical of this. So if drought and disease stops, will that bring the prices down? I doubt it. They will split the difference and pretend to make you believe you are getting a good deal.

Is there truly a free market in food? Not if big corps have a huge majority of the market. The small farmer is not the problem.

While googling I came across an entry that said EXPORTS caused shortages in the US to make butter. Huh? So we export and OUR prices go up 50% for butter? Something stinks in this country and it probably will end up being from butter gone bad. Five bucks for a pound of butter now? Exporters claim if they sell it will keep US prices down or may go slightly lower. lol Since when?

Google stuff and compare the .1% increase to actual costs at the store. Somebodys trying to hide something.

Americans suffer. Fixed income people got NO increase for 2016 as there was no inflation for 2015. Of course, in order to mislead the people they leave out food and gas in the equation, saying it’s too volatile. Volatile? When you look at the purdy charts it doesn’t look volatile at all, just INCREASES. Ack!

]]> By: William R. Morton https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/us-inflation-up-in-march-on-food-rent-costs-inflation-rate-at-1-5/10001310/comment-page-1/#comment-26617 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/?p=1310#comment-26617 As usual your formulas are years if not decades out of touch with reality. A $100 dollar bill, today, Feb. 9, 2015, will not come close to buying what a $10 dollar bill did when I graduated High School in 1961. Formulas for Utilities, Property Tax., etc., poverty level discounts are all Government Fabricated Bravo-Sierra. Our “Fixed Income” formulated for 1999 is CRIMINALLY INSUFFICIENT for todays economy.

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