What is wrong with Amazon? First their pre-order price was $16.99, then it went up to $17.49, and now it's $19.99. This is crazy. Their prices always fluctuate. It's ridiculous.
If you order early, you're guaranteed the lowest price that it was offered for between then and when it ships.
Inflation tends to follow in a liberal government
It also tends to follow "conservative" governments, too. It's what happens when people are foolish enough to let a government get away with creating a central bank (the Fed is privately owned, btw) that can create "money" out of thin air without anything to back it. The dollar today is worth less than 5% of what it was worth in 1913, when the "Federal Reserve" was created.
Considering the trillions of "dollars" that the Fed has created out of thin air over the past few months, don't be surprised when we start seeing hyper-inflation in the near future. Think
Zimbabwe: