FAILING USA EMPIRE???

[shadows]

It's called a rate. If something cost a dollar ten years ago and today it costs $1.21, what is the average rate of inflation per year?
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The average inflation rate over 10 years would by simple math be .008264462809%.  By compound math it would be the same over 10 years but figures but would change yearly.

[shadows]

RM: being in the poor class we have to drive second hand cars which have an appetite for oil.  We have bought oil by the case at $12.00 over the years.  We stopped to pickup a case at the automotive store and they rang it up at $80.00 including sales taxes.  Figured your way of determining inflation at eleven percent should apply to all products or is this normal economy growth we are to expect in the coming years? 

We need to vote more taxes and create more government jobs to spend ourselves into prosperity.   We no longer need to print any bogus greenbacks under the $50.00 bills which will create jobs, increase the children's math and allow more banks to charter.

[rhymnrzn]

We need to vote more taxes and create more government jobs to spend ourselves into prosperity.

ah, but the life is not contained in the abundance of possessions....

[Red Arrow]

ah, but the life is not contained in the abundance of possessions....

Money isn't everything but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place.   

[rhymnrzn]

Money isn't everything but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place.   

I'll give you this much credit, that money is liable to grow wings and sprout heads of its own.

[Townsend]

Shadows and rhymnrzn have a thread.  Welcome to the far end of the interwebs.

[Conan71]

Of course we can always re-purpose it and talk about USA Drug being bought out by Walgreens.

[Hoss]

Of course we can always re-purpose it and talk about USA Drug being bought out by Walgreens.

And losing 13 stores in Tulsa in the process.  I wondered what was going to happen there.  Now I wonder if the remaining stores (I can think of two now; one at 4th and Sheridan and the one I use at 11th and Garnett) will be turned into Walgreens or allow to remain as they are.  If they turn into Walgreens it looks like "Target, here I come"...

[Townsend]

And losing 13 stores in Tulsa in the process.  I wondered what was going to happen there.  Now I wonder if the remaining stores (I can think of two now; one at 4th and Sheridan and the one I use at 11th and Garnett) will be turned into Walgreens or allow to remain as they are.  If they turn into Walgreens it looks like "Target, here I come"...

I was wondering about all the empty store fronts joining the empty QT's et al.

[patric]

Has the USA joined the long line of empires that through wars spent themselves into oblivion that are coming back today?  Is the answer a trade war? 

We didn't have a problem driving the inflation sky high and still rising, now how do we stabilize prices?
 

I dont see why this is in "Local Politics".
Dont we reserve that for Sally Kern antics?

[shadows]

I dont see why this is in "Local Politics".

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Sorry, but since Oklahoma was given to the Indians, which was to be the Indian nation, in exchange for the rest of their land, now called USA and Tulsa now referred to in the legislature as “The state of Tulsa”; I was under the impression that the correct terms would be “Local Poliitics".