Today's Outrage: What's Up With Inflation?

Who's raising prices in this economy?

What a world when gasoline and clothing prices jump by the most in nearly two decades as hundreds of thousands of workers lose their jobs amid an apparently deepening recession.

I long ago realized that gasoline prices fluctuate to the beat of their own (oil) drum. The oil cartels have us over the barrel, if you'll forgive me for applying a bad pun to a worse cliché. ...