aj,
<g> yeah, that's right, life's getting tuffer all the time, too many people chasing too few of the important things in life, like a good job, your own home, relative freedom, health insurance etc,
which have inflated except for your salary not keeping up with inflation in these areas.
remember Bernanke is the fed member that said we could drop money from airplanes too prevent DEFLATION, that's capitalism's worst fear, not inflation, when rates were kept at 1% to stimulate,
but general rising inflation is in the future but NOT
now imo, there is not enough wage pressure to sustain it, sooner or later we will have to inflate in order to pay down debt easier but I don't see it yet.
will i see it before it happens, i hope so but i have been known to be wrong at least once in my life<g>