You know fellows that there is a way to deal with this. There is a food group up here that has always paid an eight percent dividend and long term stock appreciation is fairly constant the last time I looked. The food chain they own is perhaps the third largest in canada.

The stock splits two for one as soon as the valuation climbs too high. Seems to stimulate the stock increase as well as the performance of the company. The management of this company has always been superb. It just occured to me that they may be now making more money than ever.

An individual could slowly start buying in and displace their grocery bill. Or take part of their safe cash reserves they are getting peanuts on with the banks etc. and get a constant in my opinion continious return that would cover their grocery bill.

There is a ton of old canadian east coast money sitting with them. It has always been a good company as long as I remember. If nothing else people will always have to eat.

I know next week I will pull their complete background and run a check up to the current time. Since the stock market in general is going down currently I might look for a buy opportunity if possible.

Their background though historically has been so stable that I might buy in a at the going price anyways. We have to get some of the safe reserves back into action with inflation starting upward as it is. They are no longer safe with the currrent errosion factor of inflation. Current earnings are too low.

Funny it took a discussion of the current upward cost of food currently to stimulate this. I have been kind of on the lookout for areas I considered pretty safe in this economy.

I have had to reject far too many in the last couple of years. The qualifier is simple. If there is a chance I might lose sleep over an investment or the potential of this is there even if small I do not participate.

You may have simular food firms in the states. Although the other two major food chains up here in Canada do not treat their stockholders anywhere near as well and their stock prices seem unstable by comparison.

Even if a guy did not have a lot of surplus money buying in a little at a time would slowly displace the food bill. The savings you roll back into more stock. A slow profatable snowball effect until it pays all the food bill.

The wife and myself at our age do not have the time. If their performance has not deteriourated over the time since I last followed them. We will simply decide how much of our grocery bill we want to eliminate.

I think I may try that. Sounds pretty good to me.

Raising taxes would have been exactly the right option. Better a known tax than an essentially random tax via inflation. Known taxes are also easier to plan for, so they're more conducive to businesses hiring, for example.

Perry is a horse's ass in most respects, but he's exactly right that Bernanke should be treated "pretty ugly." Whether in Texas or not.

Speaking of Peanut Butter, back when I was a teenager, I use to sat up late at night and watch T.V. my Father that was a diabetic would get up in the middle of the night and get a spoon and put what seems like a whole jar of PB on it and then eat it. My step mother was no fool. She knew what he was doing, so she bought some sugar free PB.

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I had forgotten about this one guys. About 25 years ago a local radio station was having a contest, they asked a question which was "What was Colonel Klink's real name". I called and answered the question, and they said that I had won a year supply of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. I showed up the net day at the radio station and they gave me a garbage bag with 52 boxes of Kraft Deluxe Macaroni and Cheese in it.

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What else could Bernanke do? The blame should be laid on the Republicans-those in congress and those electing them- for big spending with no funding.

Let deflation happen and allow the bubbles to burst (as will likely happen anyway at least in the near term). Part of the reason why the economy is in the latrine was that the bubbles (energy, food, property) were raised in the first place -- perpetuating them does more damage than the short-term pain of having them deflate and stay pricked.

Deflation did happen.

And good. However, reinflation did also happen, and in the wrong areas. Housing = epic fail, but the counterfeiter-in-chief succeeded in inflating food and fuel.

Fuel prices are mainly driven by speculation. Food prices are driven up by the lack of cheap harvest labor and the cost of fuel.

And speculation is driven by "free" printed money, discourtesy of the counterfeiter in chief.

Negatory. Speculators gamble on projected demand/supply.
Fuel prices have been going down recently even as inflation as edged upward.

If the gamblers are given free chips, they're more likely to take risks.