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    mat200 reacted to David L's post in the thread Money & Economics with Like Like.
    Cigs? Man, I saw $9 a pack the other day. We have one family member still smoking. Doing the ruff math, she is paying $3000+ a year...
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    mat200 reacted to David L's post in the thread Money & Economics with Like Like.
    The wife and I just got our SS notice of 2.8% COLA increase, between us, we have a $93 monthly increase in SS for next year. This total...
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    mat200 reacted to Ssayer's post in the thread Money & Economics with Love Love.
    The goofy part is that we have NEVER carried a balance over on our credit cards, so we don't "rate" a top tier credit rating...
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    mat200 reacted to bigredfish's post in the thread Money & Economics with Haha Haha.
    I bought a pack of smokes today for $.50 less than last week, and my mustard and butter were BOGO at Publix. Must be no inflation...
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    mat200 reacted to David L's post in the thread Money & Economics with Like Like.
    The wife is happy, she ordered some shirts for $12 each, list price $29. I bought Black Ops 7, on sale for around the same price...
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    mat200 reacted to bigredfish's post in the thread Money & Economics with Sad Sad.
    Recall they didn’t report October numbers, both labor and inflation were bad. Here’s Sept. 1 month. There are 12 months. It’s cumulative…
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    mat200 reacted to bigredfish's post in the thread Money & Economics with Like Like.
    inflation is real. Sorry. You can believe the actual numbers and both govt and industry reports or ignore it. And it’s getting worse
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    mat200 reacted to David L's post in the thread Money & Economics with Like Like.
    RAM is pretty much an isolated issue. Some people are blaming AI pushing prices up on RAM, yet CPUs and GPUs have not increased, yet...
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    mat200 reacted to bigredfish's post in the thread Money & Economics with Like Like.
    So YOU were part of that BOOMING Black Friday! ;) Headline for the naive is “Great Black Friday, Spending UP! When in reality...
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    mat200 reacted to Arjun's post in the thread Funny / Satire with Haha Haha.
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    mat200 reacted to sdkid's post in the thread Funny / Satire with Like Like.
    LOL... I went deer hunting 10 days ago and was mostly absent for a while between that and Thanksgiving prep--- didn't even know MTG...
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    mat200 reacted to SJGUSMC21's post in the thread Funny / Satire with Haha Haha.
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    mat200 reacted to Ssayer's post in the thread Funny / Satire with Haha Haha.
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    mat200 replied to the thread Funny / Satire.
    A lot of bitcoin miners where in China, but then the CCP cracked down on them, and I guess Mongolia was close enough to move to...
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    mat200 reacted to TonyR's post in the thread Funny / Satire with Haha Haha.
    That was my first thought as well...and then I came up with another one: "A bitcoin mine in Mongolia? Heck, my area just moved from...
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    mat200 reacted to Oceanslider's post in the thread Funny / Satire with Haha Haha.
    Yes it is, and on full display over in the political thread.
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    mat200 reacted to Oceanslider's post in the thread Funny / Satire with Haha Haha.
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    mat200 replied to the thread Money & Economics.
    I just dropped $500 on RAM which was $200 a couple of months ago .. yup, retail purchases are up in total price, value is down for...
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    mat200 reacted to bigredfish's post in the thread Money & Economics with Wow Wow.
    Maffs are hard… Generally accepted that retail purchases on Black Friday were up 4.1% YOY, though unit sales were down Let’s say you...
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    mat200 reacted to bigredfish's post in the thread Money & Economics with Wow Wow.
    And it all seems to be connected to Japanese Bonds