{"id":3872,"date":"2019-04-20T21:51:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T03:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2019-04-20T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T03:51:47","slug":"what-does-your-toilet-paper-have-to-do-with-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3872","title":{"rendered":"What Does Your Toilet Paper Have To Do With Inflation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-17\/what-does-your-toilet-paper-have-do-inflation\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/toilet-paper.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dworksy cannot state categorically that the practice is occurring more frequently than it did in the past. However, \u201cyou can go up and down the aisles\u201d in a supermarket and see it, he said. Indeed. Based on numerous sources, I was able to develop a partial list of products that seem to have shrunk, or whose packages offer less items than they once did. The list includes: cookies (<a href=\"https:\/\/oreo.pissedconsumer.com\/oreo-cookies-packaging-gets-smaller-20130125378946.html\">package sizes<\/a> and in the case of at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pepperidge-farm.pissedconsumer.com\/the-incredible-shrinking-cookie-201803201214845.html\">one popular brand<\/a>, the cookies themselves), toilet paper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.goldcore.com\/ie\/gold-blog\/shrinkflation-stealth-inflation-thousands-food-products-shrink-size-not-price\/\">candy bars<\/a>, chewing gum and other confectionary products (like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_FiA57ir5QM\">Cadbury Eggs<\/a>),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/pepper-partisans-can-keep-fighting-about-tin-shapes-judge-says\/397765071\/\">ground pepper<\/a>, tuna, yogurt, ice cream,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theledger.com\/news\/20181024\/orange-juice-smaller-carafes-same-sales\">orange juice<\/a>, coffee, bags of tea, sugar, potato chips,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.which.co.uk\/news\/2016\/04\/discover-the-latest-supermarket-products-that-have-shrunk-439230\/\">toothpaste<\/a>, deodorant, cake mix, cereal, blocks of cheese, paper towels, napkins, paper plates, crackers, hot dogs, bacon, frozen dinners, heads of lettuce, canned vegetables, frozen vegetables, spaghetti sauce, canned tomatoes, mixed nuts, shaving cream, hair spray, bars of soap, tubs of margarine, detergent, bleach, shampoo, pet food, (some brands of) beer, (some brands of) hard liquor, diet shakes, diet bars, frozen pizza, peanut butter, mayonnaise, Gatorade (in some stores), vitamins, over-the-counter medicines, and even newspapers (page widths have shrunk from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/23\/insider\/2007-honey-i-shrunk-the-times.html\">16 inches<\/a> in the early 1950s to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omaha.com\/townnews\/publishing\/world-herald-to-switch-to--inch-newspaper-page-size\/article_05f38b3e-6c06-11e7-a977-43b4d09350fe.html\">11 inches<\/a> in most papers today).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is inarguable. The &#8216;official&#8217; inflation rate is far higher than reported. I first recognized this during the Clinton Administration. Clinton changed the &#8216;basket of goods&#8217; whose prices comprise the Consumer Price Index. He removed staples like food and energy, and added non-essential items like computers. We all know that computer prices are constantly falling.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"https:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayou Renaissance Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-17\/what-does-your-toilet-paper-have-do-inflation\">What Does Your Toilet Paper Have To Do With Inflation?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dworksy cannot state categorically that the practice is occurring more frequently than it did in the past. However, \u201cyou can go up and down the aisles\u201d in a supermarket and see it, he said. Indeed. Based on numerous sources, I was able to develop a partial list of products that seem to have shrunk, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Does Your Toilet Paper Have To Do With Inflation?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}