You're Not Stern Material!

Both those assertions are true, though neither has anything to do with the other.

Lumber Prices are high due to supply and demand, not inflationary action.

Oddly enough, even though the Fed has been flooding the market with Dollars, Inflation has not been running rampant. Yet.

What's really funny is that people think prices will only go up once next year.

Obviously you have never built anything but bird houses out of 2 x 4s.

Those are studs.

Buildings, generally have 8 foot ceilings.

If you use 8 foot studs, how would you keep them in place?

Pre-Cut Studs are that length to allow for Top and Bottom plates. Without them, you would have to cut 3" off of each 8' stud you used.

Licensing with the Beatles is simple.

You pay what they want and you get what they give you.

No way Stern had a choice in Era, Images or Song selection.