I Think I Broke The Economy

The sky is falling.

That’s what chicken little screamed.

Woe unto us and buyer beware.

Gas is going up.

Since everything is shipped via gas to stores, that means everything else is going up too.

Don’t worry though, the White House warns, everything should be “back to normal” by the end of the year.

They just don’t say which year.

Move along folks, nothing to see.

I am a little confused because a lot of the businesses raising prices are also experience record breaking stock growth AND awarding higher than ever executive bonuses.

In a consumer facing business, I don’t see how those things can be true at the same time.

Unless inflation means raising prices to pay executives more.

Some people say it’s because of paying workers more, but I think those people haven’t been into Wal Mart or ordered from Amazon lately.

Wal Mart has fewer workers now overall, thanks to self check out. And sure, they have to pay more for wages, roughly $4 per hour over their average of minimum wage for the past twenty years.

Everyone complains Wal Mart has to raise the price of their items by .01 but no one bothers to…