Échéancier de mutuelle (celle des pigistes qui rembourse mal), électricité et gaz, transports, essence (vive la campagne), loyer… Tout me semble avoir augmenté ou c’est moi qui estime mal les prix? Est ce qu’on pourrait nous laisser respirer svp?

#Inflation #Noel #Sante #SOS #Economie

On parle de l'inflation des prix à Noël, la preuve avec ces petits biscuits alsaciens délicieux, je précise, mais hors de prix. C'est du beurre, des oeufs, du sucre, vraiment très bon mais les prix sont plus salés que sucrés. Les étoiles à la cannelle se vendent autour de 46 euros le kilos aussi cette année. Les épices, l'amande... Cette dernière a été taxée par l'UE, or 80% de la production mondiale vient de Californie...

#Noel #Bredele #Biscuits #EtatsUnis #Amandes #Epices #Inflation

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Photo: coquin pralin, biscuits de Noël en Alsace, 7,90 euros le petit sachet snif

"On a Thursday in early September, more than 40 strangers logged in to Instacart, the grocery-shopping app, to buy eggs and test a hypothesis.

Connected by videoconference, they simultaneously selected the same store — a Safeway in Washington, D.C. — and the same brand of eggs. They all chose pickup rather than delivery.

The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.

The shoppers were volunteers, participating in a study published on Tuesday and organized by the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer publication. In tests in four cities across the country, nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart.

On item after item, they found significant differences. In a Target in North Canton, Ohio, some shoppers were charged $3.59 for a jar of Skippy peanut butter that others could get for $2.99. At a Safeway in Seattle, some people paid $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins while others paid $4.89. And at a Target in St. Paul, Minn., some people were charged $4.59 for a box of Cheerios that others could get for $3.99.

“Two shoppers who are buying the exact same item from the exact same store at the exact same time are getting different prices,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative. “The data really backs up how extraordinarily pervasive this is.”
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Groundwork’s findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price, offered to all customers for a predictable period, is breaking down in the digital age. Companies are using sophisticated algorithms to adjust prices quickly in response to competitors’ offers and consumer behavior."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algorithmic-pricing.html

#USA #AlgorithmicPricing #DynamicPricing #Insatacart #Inflation #Algorithms

I'm not sure but I think this is more wishful thinking than anything else...

"Rather than the increasing burden of essential costs suggesting living standards are being eroded, if we take a step back, it’s an indication that people across society are becoming more prosperous.

Why have services like education and healthcare become so expensive across the rich world? Because the people performing these services reside in affluent societies and dynamic economies where they can rightly command a high wage.

More precisely, per William Baumol’s 1967 famous observation, as countries develop economically, the same productivity growth that drives down the cost of tradeable goods causes the cost of in-person services to balloon. Wages in sectors like healthcare and education that require intensive face-to-face labour, and have slow (if any) productivity growth, are forced upwards in order to attract workers who would otherwise opt for high-paying work in more productive sectors. The result is that even if people keep consuming the exact same basket of goods and services, as living standards in their country increase they will find more and more of their spending is going on essential services."

https://www.ft.com/content/3fa9b486-1cc2-4bc7-9557-552266570362

#USA #CostOfLife #Inflation #Economy #Productivity

🇪🇺 Eurozone ― L'inflation remonte à 2.2% sur un (1) an mais à diminuée de -0.3% sur un (1) mois. #europe #inflation #data #stats [ https://www.agefi.fr/news/economie-marches/linflation-remonte-a-2-2-sur-un-an-en-zone-euro ]

Camille a quitté la France il y a 6 ans pour s’installer à Montréal.
Entre les hivers interminables, la gentillesse des Québécois et les différences culturelles parfois déroutantes, elle raconte sans filtre ce que ça fait de vivre ici au long cours.
Est-ce qu’on s’intègre vraiment ? Est-ce que la vie est plus douce qu’en France ? Et surtout, est-ce que Montréal reste la ville rêvée après toutes ces années ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7QxyjkEBQ

#Montréal #PlateauMontRoyal #Rosemont #VieuxRosemont #Angus #Hochelaga #VieuxPortDeMontréal #Loyer #Condo #Restoration #Salaire #Travail #CoûtDeLaVie #Inflation #Transport #Québec #Canada #Immigration #France

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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Make Argentina Gold Again

Is the American taxpayer's bailout of Argentina just a secret bailout of #Tether and the crypto industry? And where did Argentina's gold reserves disappear to?

Over the last year #Tether, the central bank of international criminal finance and the most important company in #crypto, has been buying up agriculture and technology companies in #Argentina under the guidance of #HowardLutnick, #Trump's Commerce Secretary.

Now Trump and Scott Bessent are announcing a $20 billion #bailout for Argentina's Javier Milei, which is coincidentally exactly the same amount of money #Tether just announced it's going to raise in a "private placement".

Oh, and Argentina's #gold reserves disappeared last year, and now Tether is claiming to hold the same amount of gold on its books that Argentina held before its gold did a disappearing act.

It's all very "sus" as the kids say.

* Substack: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/make-argentina-gold-again
* DocumentCloud (if you hate #Substack): https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26165498-make-argentina-gold-again-by-michel-de-cryptadamus/

(Retoots appreciated)

#uspol #uspolitics #Lutnick #stablecoin #stablecoins #Milei #JavierMilei #ScottBessent #inflation #SouthAmerica #BuenosAires #soybeans

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as a #vegan, this makes me sad!

#GoVegan #Inflation #food #fFuits #Vegetables

However, it's different when the right-wingers totally dismantle democracy, like Trump in the U.S. There is no "when liberals come into power and fix the economy." The U.S. is going to end up with runaway inflation like Turkey, Venezuela, etc. Some uber-rich people will be able to ride it out or just leave, but a lot of rich people who were happy to keep screwing over everybody else are going to discover they've gone too far and screwed themselves.
#politics #USPol #inflation