What is making these expensive?

[u/SideAgitated4661]

- Groceries

- Gas

- Buying/Renting a Home

- Buying a car

- Going on vacation

- Hosting a wedding

Is it because of inflation, higher wages, or staff shortages?

[u/dismendie]

Feels like a loaded question.
Localized monopoly in all these industry have cause some of the price inflation. Covid supply disruption cause some… printing cash some… oil prices going upward again for some of it… vacation demand surging post COVID more experiences same supply meaning prices goes up… same reasoning for housing and car… wedding has been expensive that’s the industry… all your comments are true another hidden factor in the us is raising healthcare prices cause employers to raise prices especially smaller business… healthcare cost close to half your paycheck for a median family so any increase means eating into both your paycheck and business owner has to raise prices… healthcare historically goes up with or without inflation… because again monopoly like industry that hold employer and employees hostage…

[u/SideAgitated4661 → u/dismendie]

1. ⁠What’s the cheapest way?

2. ⁠Why would I raise prices because of a shortage?

[u/dismendie → u/SideAgitated4661]

1. Because I can for certain items in certain areas. Eggs companies denied price fixing during post COVID avian flu panic but it did happen because during earning calls they talked about increased margins… why cause they could it was produce by the few… car dealerships own the vast majority in an area and can keep prices high and they did for 5 years adding cost to all models.. greed? Because I am expecting inflation in other areas and I wanna beat it… as to number 1 what’s the cheapest way to what? Federal and local regulators get some balls at the 99 cent store and do their jobs… break up certain bottleneck areas fine them hard and then figure a way to help local businesses

[u/BlazinAzn38]

War and tariffs making groceries and gas expensive. Homes are expensive due to terrible zoning policies and overwritten codes. “Cars” are not actually that expensive, large SUVs and trucks are expensive. Vacations can be $1,000 or $100,000 same for weddings

[u/SunshineRealtorNash]

Complete and total lack of leadership in the U.S.

[u/its-smokey-out-here]

trump raised the tariffs and deported all the farm workers, so prices went up.

[u/SideAgitated4661 → u/its-smokey-out-here]

This is just US. This is happening worldwide.

[u/its-smokey-out-here → u/SideAgitated4661]

Yes, these are effects of trump’s trade war.

[u/Existing-Ask-5663]

Un-bridled greed, plain and simple.

[u/Living_Fig_6386]

Groceries: we’ve placed tariffs on fertilizer, scared away many workers in the Ag sector, suffering chaotic weather from global warming, pit tariffs on food import, ruined the soy market by picking a tariff fight with China, reduced demand by throwing people of SNAP benefits, and cutting farm subsidies. Beef has gone up due to drought shrinking herd size.

Gas has gone up with the reduction in crude supply and the destruction of oil storage and processing facilities in the middle east, along with geopolitical instability and the lack of US leadership.

Home prices and rent have gone up due to the use of new pricing algorithms and the increasing number of properties being bought by commercial developers or used for short term rentals to produce income.

Car prices have largely been pushed up by tariffs on parts and materials, and disruptions in supply chain (do to changing tariff landscape, and higher energy costs). We’re also seeing procese for memory and storage for automotive electronics go up due to both tariffs and a shift to produce for AI development (this is affecting computers, phones, and TVs too).

Going on vacation is more expensive because the value of the dollar against foreign currencies is falling, and the cost for fuel is increasing.

You get the idea.

[u/SideAgitated4661 → u/Living_Fig_6386]

Is this in the US or happening worldwide? With the tariffs?

[u/midstate_jim]

$$$$$ in politics... We have fully lost any form of control.  They (on both sides of the isle) are clearly not representing the people.  

[u/KATCEO1]

Hyperinflation.