commodity prices are going up worldwide. this is the reality of the world we live in with a booming china and india.

the first thing people spend more money on as their income goes up is food items.

oil - we all know why that's going up.

if you consider the qataris not changing their currency peg a form of manipulation, then i guess you have a point. but i don't think so.

and this country would collapse without expats so obviously this inflation is not a government conspiracy to get rid of us.

it's basic supply and demand.

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