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   jonnyevans (jonnyevans@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 23:02:17 JST jonnyevans

   US consumers, it seems, have considered the idea that everything they purchase is going to become more expensive, and decided to buy it now, instead. https://www.applemust.com/faced-with-bigly-price-hikes-america-goes-apple-shopping/

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     Wayne Dixon (waynedixon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 23:02:16 JST Wayne Dixon

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     • Peter Cohen

     @jonnyevans @flargh I’m one of them. I ordered appliances. I didn’t NEED two of them, but the third I did. Better to replace it now.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 23:02:16 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Peter Cohen
     • Wayne Dixon

     @waynedixon @jonnyevans @flargh Been doing the same.

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     Peter Cohen (flargh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 23:20:34 JST Peter Cohen

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     • Warner Crocker
     • Wayne Dixon

     @WarnerCrocker @waynedixon @jonnyevans And the shameful thing is that the forces in power will use this swell of panic hoarding as proof that its economic policies are sound.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 23:56:01 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Peter Cohen
     • Wayne Dixon

     @jonnyevans @flargh @waynedixon Concur. I would only question the "now." It's always been thus. The mask only comes off it times of distress.

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     jonnyevans (jonnyevans@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 23:56:02 JST jonnyevans

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     • Warner Crocker
     • Peter Cohen
     • Wayne Dixon

     @flargh @WarnerCrocker @waynedixon That is indeed how the cold, cynical political classes on all sides now seem to behave, such is their contempt for the rest of us.