
“Decreasing quality, with rising prices. That’s stealth inflation. And no one — not even the great monetary wizard Ben Bernanke himself — can deny that stealth inflation’s a real problem. Take a look at Kimberly-Clark Corp., makers of Kleenex and other consumer products. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal points out that they’ve quietly… slowly… been ‘de-sheeting.’ What is de-sheeting? De-sheeting is the reduction in the number of sheets of toilet paper or tissues in each package while holding retail prices constant. The beauty of the de-sheeting process is that it is very hard for consumers to detect.”
http://dailyreckoning.com/how-to-profit-from-stealth-inflation/
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