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Vessol
05-08-2011, 01:14 AM
1. You are filling your car up with gas and you notice that the “price per gallon” digits are going up faster than the “gallons” numbers.

2. McDonalds announces that they are freezing the price of their most popular burger, but that they are renaming it the “Quarter Ouncer.”

3. You go to a restaurant in San Diego, and you are relieved to find that the prices on the menu look like bargains. Then you realize that they are denominated in pesos.

4. The Fed announces that they are now basing policy on a new price statistic called “Core Core Inflation”. This new price index excludes food, energy, and everything that went up in price that month.

5. Procter & Gamble complains that the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing is competing unfairly with “Charmin.”

6. People with silver fillings are afraid to smile.

7. The Fed’s Quantitative Easing XLVI arrives before Super Bowl XLVI.

8. Street beggars start demanding euros.

9. Airlines begin requiring that passengers bring their own jet fuel.

10. The Fed announces that they are going to be basing policy on an even newer price index, called “Core Core Core Inflation”. This one excludes everything.

http://blogs.forbes.com/louiswoodhill/2011/05/04/the-ten-secret-warning-signs-of-inflation/


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TheNcredibleEgg
05-08-2011, 01:26 AM
11) Everytime you go to Staples to buy green ink toner - it's out of stock, and the clerk tells you, "some bald dude with a beard keeps cleaning us out."

Lothario
05-08-2011, 07:22 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8gJSMoOJc

eduardo89
05-08-2011, 08:10 AM
11) Everytime you go to Staples to buy green ink toner - it's out of stock, and the clerk tells you, "some bald dude with a beard keeps cleaning us out."

+1

lynnf
05-08-2011, 08:34 AM
11) Everytime you go to Staples to buy green ink toner - it's out of stock, and the clerk tells you, "some bald dude with a beard keeps cleaning us out."

"and his name rhymes with Stanky, Franky or Blanky"

YumYum
05-08-2011, 10:15 AM
When Israel demands its foreign aid in gold and silver.