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For evidence look at real estate, stock market, and food (e.g. eggs [1]).

Not the government-manipulated "consumer price index" numbers, but the actual, raw prices.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_eggs_price_receivedyearly




The stock market? Securities are not consumer goods, why should they be counted in an inflation metric?

Food (and energy) prices are well known to be very volatile due to yearly changing weather and whatnot, and that signifies very little for economic policy; that is why there's a "core inflation".

If you don't trust the obviously fake data the evil government publishes, why do you link to a data series sourced from the US Department of Agriculture?

There's the MIT's Billion Prices Project, which is generated in some way from prices in online shops (but MIT is a private university, so we can assume it's not part of the government conspiracy). It usually tracks the official CPI data fairly closely, but sometimes it shows a slightly higher or lower number.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/05/01/why-weather-could-...

But anyway, if you look at how the Fed has expanded the monetary base by 300% since 2008, how come that all this "money printing" doesn't lead to much higher inflation? Isn't that quite amazing?

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BOGMBASE


I have no interest in conversations with dishonest people.




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