In the past week I was talking with a friend about Dave Ramsey. During the discussion the comment was how, if it was needed to pay the back up bills a family would need to go on a diet of rice and beans until those bills were paid.
A 2 pound bag of rice will run $1.77 making 20 servings. A 2 pound bag of beans will cost $1.73 making 25 servings. Then you add things like tomato sauce which is 48 cents per can. Then a couple chopped strips of bacon that cost 25 cents. That makes the cost of 22 cents per bowl.
Yesterday, I was walking out of the local grocery store, the headline of the local newspaper jumped out at me. It read, “The Great Recession Is Over.” My first thought was that it was a cruel trick.
Then I started asking myself, “Is The Great Recession really over?” Jobs are still tight. Milk and other staples have gone up in the past month. Big box store are worried that this Christmas’ sale will be at record lows.
Friday the stock market dropped almost 250 in both the New York and Dow Jones stock exchanges. This is in spite of good financial news for the week.
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