Since most of our food travels over a thousand miles to get to us, and a lot of it depends upon commercial petroleum-based fertilizers for production, I think it's fair to assume that there will be a correlation between gasoline prices and your grocery budget. They'll go up. In tandem. Forever.
The lows get higher and the highs get higher.
More neat-o graphs here.
Don't you just love graphs? This one is so nice. It goes up. If the Consumer Price Index were a stock, perhaps now would be a good time to tell your broker to buy. I think it's going to really take off.
But it's not a stock.
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Disappearing John was saying that "it pays to be a nurse." Yes. It does. But being rich pays better. They have graphs for that.
Oranges and other fruits have gotten bigger raises than nurses.
