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Your New Life of Sticker Shock

Your New Life of Sticker Shock
A shopper makes her way through a grocery store in Miami on July 12, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Do you remember just a few years ago when you could buy a nice burger from a local shop for $4–5? That might have come with chips. Now, it is hard to find the same for less than $10, and more likely $13, and that is without fries and with a notably smaller sandwich or burger than was normal just a few years ago.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]