Fascinating listen, thank you for the link. Just to confirm the discussion about housing and food costs in the US, one big problem here has been the buying up of residential housing by private equity firms, which has had a result similar to what you described in your video about the great Serco grift. Single family homes here in the mid Atlantic are over $500,000, these are not new homes nor necessarily very large or fancy, but in move in condition. It would be hard to find anything inhabitable without immediate renovation under $350,000. Even townhouses (terraces) are creeping toward $400,000. Blackrock and similar asset hoarders are set on turning us back into a nation of renters, and rents are over $2000 a month for a two bedroom apartment.
It would be very difficult to feed a family for less than $300 per week. I cook and bake entirely from scratch, and basic ingredients have doubled in some cases. Simple things like steel cut oats are $3 per pound. Oils are very high, milk is over $5 a gallon. Eggs were $5 but have dropped back to less than $2 in the past few weeks. Beef is astronomical, it certainly feels as if our diet is being manipulated. We know a rancher in Colorado who has had to cut down her herd because of the difficulty in getting Mexican cowboys. I am honestly not sure if this is because they simply won’t or can’t pay enough or whether work visas for ranch hands are being deliberately throttled.
RFK Jr might just be a legit gamechanger
RFK Jr might just be a legit gamechanger
Fascinating listen, thank you for the link. Just to confirm the discussion about housing and food costs in the US, one big problem here has been the buying up of residential housing by private equity firms, which has had a result similar to what you described in your video about the great Serco grift. Single family homes here in the mid Atlantic are over $500,000, these are not new homes nor necessarily very large or fancy, but in move in condition. It would be hard to find anything inhabitable without immediate renovation under $350,000. Even townhouses (terraces) are creeping toward $400,000. Blackrock and similar asset hoarders are set on turning us back into a nation of renters, and rents are over $2000 a month for a two bedroom apartment.
It would be very difficult to feed a family for less than $300 per week. I cook and bake entirely from scratch, and basic ingredients have doubled in some cases. Simple things like steel cut oats are $3 per pound. Oils are very high, milk is over $5 a gallon. Eggs were $5 but have dropped back to less than $2 in the past few weeks. Beef is astronomical, it certainly feels as if our diet is being manipulated. We know a rancher in Colorado who has had to cut down her herd because of the difficulty in getting Mexican cowboys. I am honestly not sure if this is because they simply won’t or can’t pay enough or whether work visas for ranch hands are being deliberately throttled.
And you are right about Burger King.