1. “Inflation” is a misnomer and properly describes only an increase in the money supply, which I believe has been somewhere in the neighborhood of 40% in the past two or three years. This is a hard number, and doesn’t require any research or surveys, it’s off the feds balance sheet, which no one is allowed to examine, because of Ron Paul.
2. A general rise in prices typically follows shortly after an increase in the money supply. Gov measures this in various ways, but typically excludes from these measures the prices of food, housing both rents and house prices, gasoline and other energy, and factors in technology improvements in car pricing. So a $20,000 car from 20 years ago priced at $40,000 today, didn’t actually go up in price because it has $20,000 of technology improvements, which were basically free. Your iPhone only went up 6% in price though, so $1200 for a cell phone (that used to be tossed in for free with the phone plan) means everything is fine. Also we have to ignore that house prices doubled in two years because gov considers those prices “volatile” which I think means like a volcano. If it costs twice as much to eat now, that’s ok too because EBT cards got a big boost.
What are we talking about again?
Oh yeah, WHY DOESNT ANYONE MAKE A SUBSONIC 22 WMR ROUND!!!!