We keep some stocks and have not a clue what the market will do. Perhaps twenty five percent of our reserves. On the other hand a sheep shearing seems due. I see so many things as semi synthetic in nature now so who can really know? How controlled is the current stock market anyways?

I read an article this week that inflation is currently below what the Canadian government desires. Has it arrived at a point that the average guys situation is of no real consequence or concern to them anymore?

There probably are at least ten percent of the population that could not easily survive a real bout of inflation with fairly static wages in comparison at the same time.The governments even seem concerned that some deflation might occur.

While all this BS is made into news. The reality is almost every necessity of life has been noticeably rising in price for quite some time now for us. At the same time governments on both sides of the border in north America try to claim it is generally otherwise. The wife and myself do not live that much if any differently than we did five years ago. At the same time we spend a lot more dollars doing so in comparison to five years ago. To me when you try to rationalize it all it just does not add up properly.