Thursday, March 17, 2011

Get your food in....

Get your act together that's the bottom line.  I told you so a year or so ago.

Currently,I'm shopping for a rv to retire in. South for the winter sounds like a winning program to me. Keep you posted on that as I'm negotiating with a dealer right now. We only have 20 thousand to work with so I'm being tough on these guys. Lol .


Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food - Yahoo! Finance
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in February -- double the 0.8 percent rise in the previous month. Outside of food and energy costs, the core index ticked up 0.2 percent, less than January's 0.5 percent rise.

Food prices soared 3.9 percent last month, the biggest gain since November 1974. Most of that increase was due to a sharp rise in vegetable costs, which increased nearly 50 percent. That was the most in almost a year. Meat and dairy products also rose.

Energy prices rose 3.3 percent last month, led by a 3.7 percent increase in gasoline costs.

Separately, the Commerce Department said home construction plunged to a seasonally adjusted 479,000 homes last month, down 22.5 percent from the previous month. It was lowest level since April 2009, and the second-lowest on records dating back more than a half-century.


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