Inflation here? gas/grocery prices just continue to climb

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With "existing" being so pricey right now......how are so many places still looking for employees?

For a while, the grumbling was "they're paying people to stay home".......but there's no way people are still living off the $1,400 per person in a household that they may have gotten over a year ago, and the additional unemployment funds have long since dried up.

People got use to the Covid lifestyle. Minimal stuff. Plus people have now gone into multi family home lifestyles. Imagine one person works. Two on ebt and other subsidies and it’s a 4 bedroom house. Everyone has a roll and all are surviving together.

We went into some buying FHA and starting out. Others are clamping down and not working which is a lot and the rest is the rich. We have a major shrinking middle class currently and it will show it’s signs soon enough.

Go spot check price of lumber. Price of iron and cotton. Then look at inflation and interest rates. How call they all be going up so rapidly and no collapse yet? I think the rich and buying time for position and then the bottom falls out. If I need investment capital to hire some people the rates need to be low but the fed thinks unemployment is so low which it isn’t. You can tell by the amount of job openings from the lowest to specialized. The problem is people don’t want to make a move because it’s hitting their pocket books. Maintain status quo. No risk. Groceries and such aren’t as bad as some of the products I sell. If anyone is interested pm me and I’ll share emails about price increases that would scare you. Some items 16 months ago up 70%. Other up 400%. This summer you all will see