I this a sale or signs of things to come?
Seems to me ammo prices really took a huge jump in recent years much like the housing and oil DID. Supposedly this was because of skyrocketing metal prices, specifically copper. Now that housing, oil, and lots of other things except food have come tumbling down is ammo next? I just read yesterday about a Chinese copper company reporting record losses.
...Oooorrrr, ...... Are the inflated ammo prices as a result of something else?
Seems to me that ammo should have had a huge leap from 2001 to 2003 due to military activities in A-stan and Iraq, but it wasn't until late 2006 where the bulk of activity started to wind down. It took that long for suppliers to mark up price due to demand? Supossedly ammo jumped b/c the demand of copper and it's rising cost. I have a hard time buying that one b/c surplus ammo, well is surplus from years ago. How does old ammo, made years-decades ago go up immediately based on a raw material metal that just took a spike?
Either way during a recession, even a really bad one, prices on certain things either go up, inflation, or come down, deflation. Items that have been over inflated over the years, housing, fuels, METALS, and just about anything associated with the expansions of such, are taking a dive. Things that make us run, i.e. food, something that has remained low for many years, are going up.
Unfortunately, just like gas, when the raw material for that product goes up the end product goes up along with it (speculators-gotta love them). But when the raw materials for that product dumps it always seem that it comes down like a feather.
