COLA inflation more like 14%

They’ve always lied with numbers, and economics are no different.

Inflation: • The Old-Line PPI Commodity Series Finished Goods Inflation Hit a New 41-Year Peak of 12.5% in October 2021 • Third-Quarter 2021 GDP Annual Inflation Hit Its Highest Level Since First-Quarter 1983 • 2022 Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment Was Set at a 39-Year High of 5.9%, while the Shadows Alternate-CPI Measure Suggested a 13.9% COLA Would Have Been More Realistic [Expanded detail follows in the LATEST NUMBERS and BUSINESS CYCLE Sections

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One CAFO Owner Produces 5 Million Polluting Pigs

Put pork on your Chinese fork.

Another big business model that needs to be broken up.

Jeff Hansen’s hog farming is a story that is as old as time. The growth of his concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) over the past 30 years produced over 5 million pigs brought to market in 2020.1 But, this is not a rags-to-riches story that people in Iowa are championing — unless, of course, you’re being paid to.

Source: One CAFO Owner Produces 5 Million Polluting Pigs