I noticed Axiom reintroduced their anchor pricing of regular price and "special" pricing. It's a stupid sales technique that insults a savvy consumer, so I'm assuming they're bring it back temporarily to ease the regular price as the new normal.

Hopefully they'll take it out once the price is adjusted. Fixing their website is a thread onto itself, with broken links, wrong images, a wonky pricing database, and references to SACD/Audio DVD/Dolby Pro Logic II that were written two decades ago. Axiom probably keeps using this e-commerce program because it was paid for decades ago, doesn't require hiring a new site manager with the appropriate skill set, and has minimal security vulnerabilities. But it would be nice if the website would look...modern.

Speaking of inflation, someone having his 15 minutes now is Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical lecturer who's nailed all of the big geopolitical events of the last 15 years, including this playbook of the Russian invasion...discussed back in 2014 (!):

https://youtu.be/MIdUSqsz0Io?t=2058

Alongside the collapse of China this decade and Alberta eventually breaking away from Canada, he's predicting our current inflation to be the new normal for the next several years.

https://youtu.be/Ac0BOavsWaY

Author of "Status 101: How To Keep Up In A World That Keeps Score While Buying Into Buying Less"