I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.
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Gas? It's so much cheaper than the EU, even when it's at its more expensive in the US
Not when it's not subsidized.
The US overproduces some crops that USAID used to buy and send overseas. The local supply will increase, some reckon by a lot, and prices may crash as local demand is just not there.
They will dump the food in a ditch before selling it at a reasonable price.
There is only relatively expensive.
Literally everything has gone up with every excuse possible.
Covid, some ship that blocked the Suez canal?!, war in ukraine, not enough rain, too much rain.
Prices never go down after.
Yup. And here we are, still blaming covid for shortages and "supply chain disruptions".
Clay, I can walk 100 meters and dig it out of the ground for free.
Water, it rains about 200 days a year.
Mud Pies incoming!
Dollar tree sells staples at a dollar 25
Wouldn't you get a better deal if you bought a bigger box of staples at a different retailer?
You mean like... at Staples?
US, specifically southeast Michigan: Ramen, bread, and spaghetti, though as other commenters have said everything has gone up, so even these.
Everything becomes more expensive once a market for it is created. Meanwhile local foods like murnong and kangaroo apples are free in Australia.
What is murnog? Sounds Klingon
A local type of yam that tastes like a cross between a carrot and a potato.
Take all this for a grain of salt I'm at work and didn't have time to verify these numbers. I got them from AI, but the order makes sense. They also don't include secondary and tertiary effects. E.g. what tariffs on China will do to goods imported from Japan.
In the United States, corn, soybeans, and wheat are projected to go up a maximum of 5%. We produce upwards of 40% of those goods, so they will be the ones which will impact other countries the most. Meat will go up more. We domestically produce 12-15% of the world supply of pork and beef. Produce is going to be hit badly. Up to 40%.
Gasoline and other fossil fuels is difficult to determine. We import a lot from other countries, directly from Canada, but companies based out of the United States have off shore drilling rights in locations around the world. Increased costs of fossil fuels, may have increased incentive for renewables and nuclear, but oil companies have historically passed those losses on to consumers.
Sprouted yellow peas. Available on most street corners of Myanmar cities in the morning, steaming hot. Cheap source of protein and nutrition when added to plain white rice, nutritious and delicious.
Milk. almost all the milk where I live is sourced locally. (ireland)
And eggs, eggs are cheap and always in stock (free-range is also the norm.(
Canada. Lentils, potatoes , rice.
Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don't really grow rice in Canada. There are some [examples] (https://chathamdailynews.ca/news/local-news/chatham-kent-home-to-canadas-first-commercial-rice-crop), but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I've never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.
No but the question was staples that remain cheap. We buy a lot of Rice from India, even as prices may rise it is still cheap. A 10 or 20 lb bag of rice lasts a long time for meals.
Oops, I didn't see that part of the question, my bad! I sure hope rice stays affordable, that and tofu represent like half my diet :P
Mine too. Rice, beans, tofu, lentils, potatoes...and mixed veggies. Luckily we have a local grocery chain that is not Superstore and their prices on staple goods and veggies are like half the amount of Superstore