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Don't disagree you your general thrust, however I believe most of Mickey D's
beef comes from Brazil, not sure if they use US fertilizer, may be hope the
Big Mac yet. :)
On or about 2/16/01 9:03 AM,Earl Adamy at eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx sent the
following message
> Vindication comes in the PPI ... albeit grudgingly if you listen to the
> talking heads on squawk box. One went so far as to say that there is no way
> that higher energy costs are transmitted through the rest of the economy and
> Haines informed us that if you take out food and energy, the PPI is up only
> 0.5%. Perhaps the government will discern some "quality improvements" in
> food and energy so that those increased costs will be adjusted out of the
> inflation numbers. A couple of weeks ago I read an article indicating that
> high natural gas costs has severely curtailed the production of fertilizer
> ... look for the fall harvest of grains (particularly corn which uses 3x the
> fertilizer of beans) to go higher and that Big Mac to cost more (unless of
> course McDonalds's can find quality improvement in the cattle which eat the
> grain for feed). And, yes all those health related stocks are going up
> because of improved pricing power which those of us who pay for our own
> insurance are seeing in much higher premiums.
>
> Earl
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ira Tunik" <irat@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "realtraders" <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:08 PM
> Subject: [RT] Inflation
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>> The government still says there is little or no inflation. Here are
>> some facts that boggle the mind. Housing prices in our area are up 26%
>> this year. A 1/2 pound hamburger in a regular restaurant is now $8.50
>> to $11.00. I agree a Big Mac and a whopper are still 99 cents. A plate
>> of pasta runs about $13.00, a little extra if it has a meat or clam
>> sauce. I am now paying $1.85 for a gallon of gas, down from $2.10.
>> Remember when everyone was screaming about gas at $1.00 a gallon. A
>> liter of a soft drink that used to be on sale for 79 cents is now on
>> sale for 99 cents. My utility bill 2 months ago was $85, last months
>> bill was $385. The topper is that a party that I know was in an
>> automobile accident and spent 40 days in the hospital. Cost $529,000,
>> and that didn't include any doctors cost. Now I know why my health
>> insurance went up by 30%. But fortunately no one eats, drives or needs
>> medical care or a roof over their head so there really couldn't be any
>> inflation because gold is still under $300 per ounce. Just some things
>> to think about. Ira.
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