Keep Your Balance If You Can

Going forward, running a restaurant will be much tougher. This winter and spring, farmers will be facing increased costs to produce a crop. The businesses that process raw materials into the foods sold at markets will face increased costs (labor, power, taxes, insurance, etc.) Retailers are releasing news of anticipated price increases to begin in January. If you are running a restaurant, your fixed costs each month will continue to rise. You can try to pass those costs on to your patrons, accept a reduced margin or try to do a mix of the two to find a balance. It’s going to be a balancing act. “We certainly don’t expect prices to go back to five- or 10-year averages,” said Carlos Mera, head of agri commodities market research at Rabobank. That’s partly due to a “floor” on global price rises: With fertilizer and other input costs increasing, farmers’ costs, too, are climbing. Meanwhile, increased hedging and building stocks to cushion the impact of now-familiar supply shocks is also pushing up demand." Thanks Federal Reserve pinheads, ass-clown Democrats (and their minions of useful idiots) who orchestrated this mess so that they could remove the Bad Orange Man and "save the world for democracy". I am prepared. A lot of people who don’t follow this bullshit are not and will suffer. Some will have it coming. If I see some fat ass clown on the news who is the poster boy or girl for “straight Democratic ticket mail in voter” bemoaning the fact that his or her rent is going up, their grocery bill just went up, their utilities are costing more, etc., etc., etc. I’m going to say to my television, “My heart pumps purple piss for you.”