Beef Prices Up – Booze Prices Down

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While you dig into that nice, juicy, rare T-Bone for an astonishing price, drown your sorrow in booze that's getting cheaper. That certainly should make you feel better.


Have another gulp and read the story @ Record Beef Prices Soaring By 28 Got You Down Then Drown Your Sorrows In Cheaper Booze Zero Hedge


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Lower Gas Prices Don't Boost Consumption

I've never really like the graph route to explain stuff, so read the full story @ Destroying The Myth That Lower Gas Prices Boost Consumption Zero Hedge

 

[Uncensored2008]

Grog is a mixture of rum and water. Ships that used to kidnap the crews would often keep the crew in a stupor by giving them grog all day. This helped to keep the enslaved men from mutiny.

The current rulers are making sure pot is legal and booze is cheap - while food becomes out of reach for many. But if the public is too stoned and too drunk, then they won't rise up against their oppressors.