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Economy

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(66,569 posts) Sun Aug 31, 2025, 09:55 AM Aug 31

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Whee!

fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling
Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.
fortune.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM

Whee!

fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
— hilzoy (@hilzoy.bsky.social) 2025-08-30T00:02:13.560Z

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Consumers will have a clue once they're paying more Fiendish Thingy Aug 31 #1

Here in Cali we are already paying more Nigrum Cattus Aug 31 #2

I'd guess we really start feeling it at Thanksgiving underpants Aug 31 #3

Some consumers don't have a clue. mwmisses4289 Aug 31 #4

Some items have already doubled nitpicked Aug 31 #5

And don't rely on US agriculture nitpicked Aug 31 #6

Wow. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 31 #8

These are not supply and demand problems like in the Great Depression bucolic_frolic Tuesday #9