Our duplex is nearly paid off. Still under Prop 13. Two adult children have always rented and don’t know much about owning property. So to stay within Prop 13, we keep property improvements to what is necessary. The kids may not be able to afford the upkeep of the duplex because they don’t think about retirement and they may just sell and split the profit. That’s why we don’t do anything if we don’t have to.
Carbon monoxide 2005 to 2018 there was 22 fatalities that is like 5112 hotel days, meanwhile twice the number of people who died in the entire Vietnam War die here last year from fentanyl / drug overdoses, just under 120,000 last year, and we are doing nothing to stop the inflow of drugs from mostly China.
I see so many who claim there isn't grocery inflation, so I have to think that it's a regional thing just like the housing and car market. There are many everyday items I buy where the prices have gone up 2-3x since Covid/Inflation and I'm talking the store brand/cheapest version of what I was already buying. Store brand OJ was $1.49 a carton pre-inflation, it's now $4.49 in our stores. Oatmeal has also gone up $3 a cannister. Our ground beef prices went from $4.99/lb. to $8.99/lb. Meat prices in general have gone up $2-3/lb. on average in our stores. Paper products skyrocketed during Covid and never came back down. Now oddly enough our milk is still only about $2.89 a gallon, but my friend who lives in Michigan pays $4/gallon and can't find it cheaper. From my own personal experience, I used to be able to get groceries for $60-70 a week. I buy LESS now and it's hard to get out of the store every week for under $125-150 a week depending on if I have to buy paper products that week or not.
The problem with the drones that look at properties is the miss information. They will indicate somebody's firewood that is being stored for the wood heater that they have in their house that the insurance company knows about and they will. Deem that be ha for this materials and cancel the insurance policy with no chance to protest.
Clark you Elitist... LOL Dollar Tree raised their prices 25% and more on some items and the packages are half the size now... CPI might be 21% but they don't even factor groceries or energy into that. I believe that many grocery items are now close to double what they used to be... Kirkland 3lb coffee used to be $8.99 now it's $14.99+.
I just went to the grocery store in Minneapolis to buy some hamburger today. It is $5.99 a pound Chicken is a $1.49 pound so I bought 8 pounds of chicken for $11. 8 lbs of hamburger would have been $48...Hamburger has doubled since spring of 2022
Our food bill at Costco and Walmart have been mostly reasonable lately. Eggs are 20 cents each. Boneless pork on sale for $2.00 lb. There are a lot of good values out there if you learn to shop.
20-50% cost per unit increase is what I'm seeing consistently in the grocery store on the majority of items on my list.. So many items that were always $.89 - $.99 are now $1.19 - $1.49. The 16-oz. bags of frozen vegetables have shrink to 12oz. but now cost $1.29-$1.49. I make a detailed grocery list sorted by aisle # and stick to it. I never go down an aisle that is not on my grocery list, so at least shopping is quicker.
Exactly, saying “we don’t do politics on this podcast” is doing politics if not researching more sources then one or two of the same sources you are used to using.
@@soonerbmama6727 Please share links to any official federal government stats you see that states inflation on food is much more than 21%. We're happy to research more but not seeing anything over 25%. 💚
Regarding the sisters with an aging parent and high dollar real estate - I am a many-year seasoned landlord, and try to always go by the book and treat my tenants fairly. Hence I have had few tenant issues. But I would absolutely avoid being a landlord in So California, if it can be avoided. I would look for tax savings other than the step up in basis, when mom must go to assisted living. So California is no place to learn to be a landlord.
Car payments have doubled between the increased prices and higher interest rates...Before 2021 you could still lease a car for $300. Forget that now unless you put $8k down out of pocket...
I think we miss some of the health benefits that lead to financial benefits from food inflation . For many this my reduce overeating and eat less and less to healthy weight loss . I am sure you could do a calculation in every pound that is lost to a amount in health savings . Inflation has other positive affects for the environment and the health of are planet that also translates into financial savings . We buy less which puts less strain on our planets environment which reduces financial costs to try to repair the consequences of our actions . It has value that is not calculated into the inflation amount . So any inflation calculation is probably much lower than what is prescribed
I have not changed my shopping behavior at all and these prices are decidedly at least double if not triple what they were after the pandemic ended. Up until to day May of 2025... That does not even include shrink flation I'm just talking basic foods.
My weekly grocery trip was around $60, now I can't get out of there under $110. That's the real world, not the BS official garbage. But I've made out like a bandit in the market, on treasuries and CDs. So overall, I've benefited greatly from the massive govt spending, i.e., MMT. Thanks Joe! 🤣
I could get a lot for my paid-off house now. If I took the proceeds and invested it in one Vanguard's index funds, the returns generated would not be anywhere near enough to cover renting an apartment. So renting is not cheaper for me. Obviously, selling my house and buying a smaller house would not free up any money, either.
@@brucefredrickson9677 Exactly. This is what Clark calls being trapped for boomers. Young people accuse boomers of hogging all the housing when they don't need it for raising kids. Young people need to see reality. I ramble around my house feeling my house crying out for a young family. It's too big for me to take care of and I don't need it. But I am trapped.
The government should be subsidizing medical and dental education not the individual students pursuing that degree because what happens if the student. Just can't make it through the program and they are left worth life crippling debt.
I like clark but his comment sections sucks full of angry people. The man is smarter than you when it comes to money. He spends a considerable amount of his time reading all day every day. He is more informed about world events and financials than you are. I don't care what you used to pay for hamburger. That is not how you calculate Inflation by picking one particular item. Some of you are so ridiculous that there could be a massive crop failure of a particular item, and you would blame it on the president.
Very irresponsible to suggest someone try and remove a phone line, you must not have a relative that worked for the power company and the accidents that they knew about
Clark has no idea about prices he only shops at costco he’s ignorant of what the rest.of the world experiences with high inflation not costco inflation he’s just in his own little world
I appreciate Clark saying this podcast is a political free zone. Too much media and viewers are caught up in it. Having said that, buying Coca Cola products and cookies at Walmart seems to have gone up a lot more than 21%
For sure regarding cars. Drive a junker until you can pay cash for a decent used (not new) vehicle. New cars drop in value so fast. Look for cars coming off a 3 year lease.
You're not required to do that You have a choice unless for instance... You send your child to the University of Minnesota and you have a lot of money. They do require that you pay thousands of dollars of your child's education.
Definitely not a requirement, but some parents feel obligated. 🤷♂ Our philosophy has always been that your retirement savings is top priority over your child's education. There are other means to pay for college (i.e. scholarships, grants, loans, jobs, etc...), but none of this is available for retirement. 💚
It’s not doubled or tripled, but Clarkie may be drinking the “official” CPI statistics Kool-Aid. If you believe today’s government statistics, I have a bridge I want to sell you. The stats are clearly rigged. If the CPI were computed using the same methodology as in 1983, the official rate would be much higher.
@@lynnhensley4326 Depends on the items, many items have gone up 2-3x. The store brand(which was and is still the cheapest) oatmeal I buy was $1.49 pre-inflation and is now $4.49. Orange juice went from $1.50-2 a carton to $4-5 a carton. I could list plenty of other examples, but grocery prices in most cases have nearly doubled. I won't even talk about how the portions you get in the same size boxes have gone down. Name brand cereal is a joke now, they increased the price of a box from $3 to $5+ and only fill it up halfway now or give you a much smaller box.
The problem with the drones that look at properties is the miss information. They will indicate somebody's firewood that is being stored for the wood heater that they have in their house that the insurance company knows about and they will. Deem that be ha for this materials and cancel the insurance policy with no chance to protest.
Our duplex is nearly paid off. Still under Prop 13.
Two adult children have always rented and don’t know much about owning property.
So to stay within Prop 13, we keep property improvements to what is necessary.
The kids may not be able to afford the upkeep of the duplex because they don’t think about retirement and they may just sell and split the profit. That’s why we don’t do anything if we don’t have to.
Insurers are spying on customers often looking to cancel them. That is what is objectionable.
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How do they accomplish this?
Carbon monoxide 2005 to 2018 there was 22 fatalities that is like 5112 hotel days, meanwhile twice the number of people who died in the entire Vietnam War die here last year from fentanyl / drug overdoses, just under 120,000 last year, and we are doing nothing to stop the inflow of drugs from mostly China.
Most of the drugs come from South America. China maybe evil, but they are not the drug Boogeyman.
How can we impact the demand?...especially our youth.
I see so many who claim there isn't grocery inflation, so I have to think that it's a regional thing just like the housing and car market. There are many everyday items I buy where the prices have gone up 2-3x since Covid/Inflation and I'm talking the store brand/cheapest version of what I was already buying. Store brand OJ was $1.49 a carton pre-inflation, it's now $4.49 in our stores. Oatmeal has also gone up $3 a cannister. Our ground beef prices went from $4.99/lb. to $8.99/lb. Meat prices in general have gone up $2-3/lb. on average in our stores. Paper products skyrocketed during Covid and never came back down. Now oddly enough our milk is still only about $2.89 a gallon, but my friend who lives in Michigan pays $4/gallon and can't find it cheaper. From my own personal experience, I used to be able to get groceries for $60-70 a week. I buy LESS now and it's hard to get out of the store every week for under $125-150 a week depending on if I have to buy paper products that week or not.
and I am seeing more "shrink-flation", too. where the product container is smaller for the same (or sometimes more) cost. It adds up. 😒
the only people saying that are incumbents
The problem with the drones that look at properties is the miss information. They will indicate somebody's firewood that is being stored for the wood heater that they have in their house that the insurance company knows about and they will. Deem that be ha for this materials and cancel the insurance policy with no chance to protest.
I have a book that list 2,382 Scholarships and all have online options. Many of these scholarships list medical options like nursing.
Clerk your absolutely wrong about food prices. It's just unfortunate that you don't have samplings from different parts around the nation
I don't believe you. So if my food bill was $200 a week. It would now be $400 to $600 a week. No way no how. We must live in different dimensions.
Clark you Elitist... LOL Dollar Tree raised their prices 25% and more on some items and the packages are half the size now... CPI might be 21% but they don't even factor groceries or energy into that. I believe that many grocery items are now close to double what they used to be... Kirkland 3lb coffee used to be $8.99 now it's $14.99+.
Hamburger was a $1.99 a pound and now I'm lucky to get it at 4.99 a pound sometimes it's $5.99.. that's not even the top quality hamburger.
I just went to the grocery store in Minneapolis to buy some hamburger today.
It is $5.99 a pound Chicken is a $1.49 pound so I bought 8 pounds of chicken for $11. 8 lbs of hamburger would have been $48...Hamburger has doubled since spring of 2022
I don't eat red meat. It could be a $100 a pound do not care.
@@autohelix are your eyes in the front?. you're a carnivore. for hunting prey
Our food bill at Costco and Walmart have been mostly reasonable lately. Eggs are 20 cents each. Boneless pork on sale for $2.00 lb. There are a lot of good values out there if you learn to shop.
20-50% cost per unit increase is what I'm seeing consistently in the grocery store on the majority of items on my list.. So many items that were always $.89 - $.99 are now $1.19 - $1.49. The 16-oz. bags of frozen vegetables have shrink to 12oz. but now cost $1.29-$1.49. I make a detailed grocery list sorted by aisle # and stick to it. I never go down an aisle that is not on my grocery list, so at least shopping is quicker.
Great shopping tip, Clarkie! 🙌
I spent more on tv because of glare. Did a ton of research and happy with my purchase.
Where are the top 20 markets for housing?
Scott is turning into bathroom floss, the roll is shrinking more and more
Sorry but you are towing party lines on inflation we are being crushed out here.
Exactly, saying “we don’t do politics on this podcast” is doing politics if not researching more sources then one or two of the same sources you are used to using.
@@soonerbmama6727 Please share links to any official federal government stats you see that states inflation on food is much more than 21%. We're happy to research more but not seeing anything over 25%. 💚
Regarding the sisters with an aging parent and high dollar real estate - I am a many-year seasoned landlord, and try to always go by the book and treat my tenants fairly. Hence I have had few tenant issues. But I would absolutely avoid being a landlord in So California, if it can be avoided. I would look for tax savings other than the step up in basis, when mom must go to assisted living. So California is no place to learn to be a landlord.
What is Bob in North Carolina eating?
Ethan is an insurance agent
Car payments have doubled between the increased prices and higher interest rates...Before 2021 you could still lease a car for $300. Forget that now unless you put $8k down out of pocket...
I think we miss some of the health benefits that lead to financial benefits from food inflation . For many this my reduce overeating and eat less and less to healthy weight loss . I am sure you could do a calculation in every pound that is lost to a amount in health savings .
Inflation has other positive affects for the environment and the health of are planet that also translates into financial savings . We buy less which puts less strain on our planets environment which reduces financial costs to try to repair the consequences of our actions . It has value that is not calculated into the inflation amount . So any inflation calculation is probably much lower than what is prescribed
Interesting, thought-provoking angle! 💚
I have not changed my shopping behavior at all and these prices are decidedly at least double if not triple what they were after the pandemic ended. Up until to day May of 2025... That does not even include shrink flation I'm just talking basic foods.
If you are worried about toilet paper you are doing it all wrong.
Order a bidet attachment for under $30 and find out how to save your a@@ LITERALLY!
Shout-out to Nicole!! 🙋🏻
👋🏾 Hi, Clarkie! (this is Nicole) 💚
My weekly grocery trip was around $60, now I can't get out of there under $110. That's the real world, not the BS official garbage. But I've made out like a bandit in the market, on treasuries and CDs. So overall, I've benefited greatly from the massive govt spending, i.e., MMT. Thanks Joe!
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Good show 👍
Thank you Team Clark.
You have to know how to shop to save money. My Mom taught us what to buy and what not to buy. Be a smart shopper.
I could get a lot for my paid-off house now. If I took the proceeds and invested it in one Vanguard's index funds, the returns generated would not be anywhere near enough to cover renting an apartment. So renting is not cheaper for me. Obviously, selling my house and buying a smaller house would not free up any money, either.
So....I guess you won't be moving anytime soon.
@@brucefredrickson9677 Exactly. This is what Clark calls being trapped for boomers. Young people accuse boomers of hogging all the housing when they don't need it for raising kids. Young people need to see reality. I ramble around my house feeling my house crying out for a young family. It's too big for me to take care of and I don't need it. But I am trapped.
The government should be subsidizing medical and dental education not the individual students pursuing that degree because what happens if the student. Just can't make it through the program and they are left worth life crippling debt.
Good idea! 🙌
I like clark but his comment sections sucks full of angry people. The man is smarter than you when it comes to money. He spends a considerable amount of his time reading all day every day. He is more informed about world events and financials than you are. I don't care what you used to pay for hamburger. That is not how you calculate Inflation by picking one particular item. Some of you are so ridiculous that there could be a massive crop failure of a particular item, and you would blame it on the president.
Very irresponsible to suggest someone try and remove a phone line, you must not have a relative that worked for the power company and the accidents that they knew about
It's too good to be toilet paper.
Clark: bzzzzzzzzzz. Curtains for you. Haha 😅😅
🤦♂😂
Clark smells like a garlic bulb
Clark has no idea about prices he only shops at costco he’s ignorant of what the rest.of the world experiences with high inflation not costco inflation he’s just in his own little world
Stupid comment. Tons of people shop at Costco. What are you ever talking about?
Insurance is a scam
Until you get sued or your house burns down.
I appreciate Clark saying this podcast is a political free zone. Too much media and viewers are caught up in it. Having said that, buying Coca Cola products and cookies at Walmart seems to have gone up a lot more than 21%
W Clark
Pay cash for your house and have no mortgage
Not feasible for most people but good idea! 💚
For sure regarding cars. Drive a junker until you can pay cash for a decent used (not new) vehicle. New cars drop in value so fast. Look for cars coming off a 3 year lease.
@@Clark wrong
Again why am I required to save and pay for my adult children's college???
You're not required to do that You have a choice unless for instance... You send your child to the University of Minnesota and you have a lot of money. They do require that you pay thousands of dollars of your child's education.
Definitely not a requirement, but some parents feel obligated. 🤷♂ Our philosophy has always been that your retirement savings is top priority over your child's education. There are other means to pay for college (i.e. scholarships, grants, loans, jobs, etc...), but none of this is available for retirement. 💚
Students could apply for numerous scholarships to help offset the cost of college.
Wrong! so wrong! so very wrong about food inflation! We are paying double and triple the price for food on top of getting less in quantity! Lies!
Food is up but not tripled or doubled. Look for deals and lost leaders.
Food inflation? Yes. Double or triple? No.
It’s not doubled or tripled, but Clarkie may be drinking the “official” CPI statistics Kool-Aid. If you believe today’s government statistics, I have a bridge I want to sell you. The stats are clearly rigged. If the CPI were computed using the same methodology as in 1983, the official rate would be much higher.
@@lynnhensley4326 Depends on the items, many items have gone up 2-3x. The store brand(which was and is still the cheapest) oatmeal I buy was $1.49 pre-inflation and is now $4.49. Orange juice went from $1.50-2 a carton to $4-5 a carton. I could list plenty of other examples, but grocery prices in most cases have nearly doubled. I won't even talk about how the portions you get in the same size boxes have gone down. Name brand cereal is a joke now, they increased the price of a box from $3 to $5+ and only fill it up halfway now or give you a much smaller box.
@@TeKnoVKNG23I find that to be true. Minced garlic from $5.99% to $10.99..
Hey here's your flirting girl, there's nothing sexier than a man who saves you money.❤
The problem with the drones that look at properties is the miss information. They will indicate somebody's firewood that is being stored for the wood heater that they have in their house that the insurance company knows about and they will. Deem that be ha for this materials and cancel the insurance policy with no chance to protest.