I know there isn't a perfect currency, but it would be interesting if they made the same graph showing prices as they relate to silver.

Medicine, education, and housing have had their weighting lowered in the "official" inflation indexes. There's no inflation, nothing to see here, print off another couple of trillion and hand it to the US Treasury.

That being said, I think that the private sector efficiencies from tech we've enjoyed over the last thirty years are starting to have declining returns. May you live in interesting times.

Where do woke nikes fall in this category... is there a free column?

Like satan, Govt can not create but only destroy

The biggest red flag for me here is how cheap TVs have gotten. It's almost as if they want people to be glued to them taking instructions from the government....

It's almost like they're targetting industries to destroy.

I love Hedonics.

I have three T-shirts, $12 jobbies from Rock Concerts, that are solid as hell. I still wear them when working out or doing chores. They're at least 25 years old, and other than the black color fading away, they're free of holes.

Brought some plain T-shirts last year from two brand name companies at national retailer, they have holes in them and are thin as shit. They cost about $15 each.

Both sets of shirts are "100% cotton".

The T-shirts of today are of greatly lower quality than the ones of decades ago.

Definitely by design. Make the needs more expensive and the placating temptations more plentiful.

Alot of the stuff on the bottom is because of China. Not really worth it, in my opinion.

Look how closely housing follows wages as if raising the minimum wage will make such things more accessible and the prices wouldn't immediately go up to meet it.

This is one of those things I've been talking about. People don't quite get that there is a very real set of economic problems going on which really are motivating a lot of people on the left. The ones on the left are a somewhat bizarre combination of those who benefit and those who loose out particularly in urban environments.

The thing is they don't realise is that it's the socialists they're voting for thinking they'll solve the problem that are the biggest cause of these problems.

When people look at inflation as a single overall figure it hides things such as if things that are more essential are rising in price and things that are less so are falling in price.

If you do the same for housing in this graph and expand it you'll also be surprised. The reality on the ground for a lot of people are house prices rising in excess of wages. I know this in part because I've seen the same pattern in other countries that are already far more crowded.

When you rely on statistics like this they really do not tell you the true story, you have to break them down and down. You can't take some top level figure and say that's representative of the situation on the ground for everyone. If you take house prices, split them, look at where they're going down below wage inflation and where they're going up above it I bet you'll see a tell tell pattern of housing prices rising faster than wages in the places where you really need housing.

Part of what you're seeing is price gauging to swallow up all disposable income.

The more Democratic Socialism intervenes in Goods and Services, the less affordable it becomes. #Facts

Now do the same thing but graph price vs money supply.

Not trying to fix it. Trying to break and control it, and break and control you and me.

This makes it clear that cpi and other inflation metrics are garbage. A new civic in 1997 cost about half of what it does today. That's a perfectly reasonable representation of inflation, showing 100% actual inflation advertised as 0% here.

New cars stayed the same? Doubt