'Since COVID began in March 2020, the cost of food at home has jumped 24.6%.'
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Inflation: Grocery prices reaccelerate, now 25% higher than pre-pandemic, April 10, 2024
'Shelter costs rose 5.7% year over year..'
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Housing inflation still sticky in March: 'Little progress over the past nine months,' April 10, 2024
'Home maintenance fees have risen .. up 8.3% from a year earlier..''Rising insurance premiums, property taxes and maintenance costs show little sign of abating .. Worst of all, home insurance premiums are soaring. Rates rose by more than 10% on average in 19 states in 2023 .. All these escalating costs, Battany said, are going to be an unpleasant shock for many homeowners.
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Home maintenance fees have risen. It cost an average of $6,663 a year to maintain a home in the fourth quarter of 2023, up 8.3% from a year earlier, according to home-improvement tech company Thumbtack.. '
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The Hidden Costs of Homeownership Are Skyrocketing, April 10, 2024
Context (Global Stagflation)(Inflation out of control) - 1970s-style stagflation .. repeating itself(Sticky Inflation)(Inflation getting entrenched)(Interest rates _way_ too low) - '..relearning the painful inflation lessons of the 1970s'(Global Stagflation) - 'This situation has essentially morphed into a cost-of-living crisis..' - Dr. Hunt(Global Stagflation)(QE Was a Colossal Policy Mistake) - '..wage earners have to get a 14.8 per cent wage increase just to hold even with this kind of inflation..''Disaster is a strong but appropriate word that applies perfectly to the state of U.S. monetary policy..' - Dr. Hunt, April 20, 2022
(Disaster)(Fed, ECB way behind the curve) - 'US Inflation Quickens to 9.1% .. relentless price pressures..' - 'Inflation at current levels is a severe economic, social, and political problem..''.."financial slavery" that grips the world .. are of high human and personal cost..'(Project C - Phase II 2022 - 2032) - Eye Opener, To Heal in The Electric Universe