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No one is buying anything but necessities.
Prices are UP on almost everything and no one can afford the prices.
Withholding the CPI for the month of October 2025 only adds to the problem as people have money invested in TIPS and Series-I inflation bonds. Folks with these investments likely don't know what to do -- buy or sell?
What a fiasco we now have thanks to the government shutdown caused by low IQ devotees of the FAT TACO boy.
Happy Thanksgiving not! Who the hell can afford a free range turkey these days?
A friend is coming over on Thanksgiving to cook a turkey she got from the local homeless center that gives her a "basket" every year as I rather think she has been homeless herself. 
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