Food costs up last fall.

[bazokajoe]

Well, well, well. Little Justin should realize buy now that he can not control the free market. If he thinks he can control food prices, and housing for that matter, he really is clueless. Sorry, correction, he IS clueless.

Food costs up despite efforts to 'stabilize' prices: Report

The cost of food was up in the fall despite the Industry Minister's claim that prices would "stabilize" for Canadians.

torontosun.com

 

[NotADcotor]

Well, well, well. Little Justin should realize buy now that he can not control the free market. If he thinks he can control food prices, and housing for that matter, he really is clueless. Sorry, correction, he IS clueless.

Food costs up despite efforts to 'stabilize' prices: Report

The cost of food was up in the fall despite the Industry Minister's claim that prices would "stabilize" for Canadians.

torontosun.com

It's easy to control prices... if you don't really care if there is anything on the shelves to sell.

 

[Not getting younger]

Should the "Free Market" be hurting people? Yes or no?

Right now the "Free Market" is crippling first-time home buyers. Is that a good thing? Or are you one of those who think that all poor people are vermin?

This should be good.....

There are those that will argue and have argued for years the issue is larger than that. Most have ignored stuff until now when it’s hitting home. I think the expression is when roosters come home.

Demand / supply

what has you convinced it’s solely supply. Especially given the fact house prices didn’t explode until around 2012…following um….people sticking their heads in the sand……….and the fact, we’ve been short over 1 million units for years. Not even sure we have the labour force to meet just that anytime soon….oops…and won’t they be…aren’t they retiring???? Double oops..

As for the topic. Gee what a surprise. But do people grasp weighted indexes, inflation, taxes, the BoCs role, producers/farmers, cost excess demand, etc and so on…

 

[bazokajoe]

Yes, the Liberals should be chastised for daring to believe that they can fix prices of anything, especially given the lessons of JT's father trying to do the same over 40 years ago.

However, the fact that they tried should be lauded...no?

No.

 

[bazokajoe]

Should the "Free Market" be hurting people? Yes or no?

Right now the "Free Market" is crippling first-time home buyers. Is that a good thing? Or are you one of those who think that all poor people are vermin?

This should be good.....

If you want to live in a price controlled country then good luck to you.
If prices are controlled by Ottawa then so will your wages. That should be good, yes or no?
First time home buyers are struggling due to many factors. None of those factors are within control of Ottawa.
They can throw all the money they want at municipalities for housing but that won't help. Cities will suck up most of that money in overpaid civil servants pushing papers.

 

[bazokajoe]

So, "Greed is Good"? Or at least greed is uncontrollable?

Got it.....

Exactly, greed is uncontrollable.
I would love to hear your solution. Be good for a laugh.

 

[Vinson]

Yes, whatever the government did it didn't help.

 

[bazokajoe]

Well, don't get snarky, asshole. You don't win anything if you are correct here... Jesus...

Lighten up....I guess money really doesn't buy happiness, right?

It's bought me lots of happiness

 

[NotADcotor]

Should the "Free Market" be hurting people? Yes or no?

Right now the "Free Market" is crippling first-time home buyers. Is that a good thing? Or are you one of those who think that all poor people are vermin?

This should be good.....

It's not the free market that is crippling first time home buyers, it's government policy

 

[Frankfooter]

Well, well, well. Little Justin should realize buy now that he can not control the free market. If he thinks he can control food prices, and housing for that matter, he really is clueless. Sorry, correction, he IS clueless.

Food costs up despite efforts to 'stabilize' prices: Report

The cost of food was up in the fall despite the Industry Minister's claim that prices would "stabilize" for Canadians.

torontosun.com

So you can't control food prices but its still JT's fault?

 

[NotADcotor]

I would argue that it is both. Free market (greed) for causing the problem and government for not doing anything about it (and collecting profits too).....

Except the problem is greed. Greed has been around from the beginning and everywhere. Why here, why now... look more closely.
Markets are usually pretty good at fixing these problems unless there is something intrinsically unfixable, and even then it will generally do a as good a job as you can expect.
In this situation there is no underlying reason why we must have a housing crisis.

History is filled of examples where the government causes a problem, it's blamed on the market and when they try to fix it, makes it worse which... yeah is blamed further on the market.