Well, I guess it's time for everyone to wake up and smell the slavery and socialism (distinctly different odors, but generally found together, as one pays for the other - for a while). Socialism is an ostensibly altruistic income redistribution system, and in reality is a vote-buying scheme that exploits the poor and leaves them starving worse than how they were before socialism came along promising salvation from poverty. Slavery comes in many forms, feudalism and sweatshop/company store systems being the most popular, but always winds up supporting power-buying schemes like socialism. Put them both together, and it sucks the value out of any economies involved, and without value, cash doesn't buy enough to keep everyone alive. Since this report says no inflation in spite of price increases on scarce stuff like food and fuel, it must mean that everyone is getting poor at the same time. Unless we lock out the products of slavery (China) and drop socialist stupidity, we're toast.