A FED THANKSGIVING

50 cents is $ 10 to $ 12 bucks today in silver. Yes , markets are manipulated but still.

75 cents for a rack of lamb, who do they think they are?

In the words of the great Ron Paul (and all of his chanting supporters at his presidential campaign rallies – even at UC Berkeley) – END THE FED, END THE FED, END THE FED!!!!

for a good approximation, multiply all these prices by a hundred to get their modern cash equivalent. A hundred years ago a $20 piece was a shade under a full oune of gold. In some cases you’ll see that some items have indeed bcome more expensive. in many cases you’ll see far _lower_ prices, but the other thing youll notice is that in a hundred different ways we have been for fifty or sixty years, since the end of ww2 really, repeatedly substituting cheaper and cheaper imitations of everything, so much that most people dont even know what the genuine article is anymore- and the prices have gone down somewhat following the cheapness of the imitations but they’re passed off to most as if they replace the original. Much more impressive than specifically the prices, is the variety especially of different meat, available on demand at these establishments. Yes, they had chilled transport even in 1899, but still to have a dozen kinds of game meat available is something you wont find in most any restaurant today even if the prices followed the cash and were now 300 dollars a plate.

I lived for a long time in switzerland and the quality of things there has not degraded nearly as much as almost anywhere else – it’s one of the reasons things are so expensive there – when taken into perspective, they never really seemed to be so high, so much as one instead got the converse impression whenever one left switzerland, that everything is cheap garbage and who cares if the prices are low, none of it is edible. I travelled through the length of germany once by car and stopped midway for fuel and stopped into a supermarket thinking id pick up some snacks for the trip. while driving for several hours at a hundred miles an hour (in the middle lane, you dont dare go so slow in the left lane) was definitely a trip, the eye-opener was the supermarket. A half-acre of floor space stocked wall to wall, certainly prices that seemed absurdly low compared to die schoeni schweiz, and i left without finding anything i’d consider edible!

in most other places if youre not out in the country and well connected with the community around, you arent going to be eating decently, maayyybe unless you shell out an arm and a leg and even then you know youre only getting the okay stuff and not the good stuff.

Stability is never achievable!

Embrace the suck!