Strange things Afloat

I. After getting groceries on the cheap i forgot to get chips for my queso, went back and saw that they (the chips) were well over $4.00! That leads me to inflation, it's steady on the uptick. However, my wages are still stagnate. Sure most of you guys' are in the same boat. Looking to the future, and futures contracts via CME lots of things look flat..to me that is troubling, more or less coming from banks and their stupid algorithms, their derivatives trading causing a lock-down strangle hold.
II. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary it's defined as, " secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose acting in collusion with the enemy" Only collusion that i find is with JP Morgan and their silver holdings, since we are on that word COLLUSION, let's use that in a legal sense....do i believe that Trump is in "collusion" with Russia? IMO i say no!!! The russian lawyer who Don Jr. was involved with didn't even work with or is an entity of Russia's government. He may (Jr.) have obstruction charges filed against him. But that is all that you ever here on CNN especially, COLLUSION..sounds a bit like back in the day when Fox news was all over Obama ..someone is colluding and it sure isn't the POTUS or family, take a closer look.
III. ECON 101, there is no such thing as a free lunch, well in my case today there was. Regardless, have you guys seen the prices nowadays of homes?