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The CPI Understates Inflation Skewing Our Expectations

August 17, 2019

The CPI Understates Inflation Skewing Our Expectations  The purpose of the consumer price index (CPI) is to reflect just how much inflation is eating into both our incomes and our savings. Consumer inflation has been estimated since the 1700s, by measuring price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods. This method was seen as a […]

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Will Your Retirement Efforts Achieve Escape Velocity?

November 4, 2018

Will Your Retirement Efforts Achieve Escape Velocity? Sadly, most of us will outlive our savings The concept of ‘retirement’, of enjoying decades of work-free leisure in your golden years, is a relatively new construct. It’s only been around for a few generations. In fact, the current version of the relaxed, golfing/RV-touring/country club retirement lifestyle only […]

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The Coming Inflation Threat: The Worst Of Both Worlds

October 20, 2018

Sandusky Register The Coming Inflation Threat: The Worst Of Both Worlds Expect falling asset inflation, but rising cost inflation Inflation is a funny thing: we feel it virtually every day, but we’re told it doesn’t exist—the official inflation rate is around 2.5% over the past few years, a little higher when energy prices are going […]

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Is an Inflation Comeback in the Works?

February 23, 2017

Is an Inflation Comeback in the Works?  Exterminating Angel LOVINGSTON, VIRGINIA – Amid all the sound and fury of the Trump news cycle, hardly anyone noticed. There is a specter haunting this economy. It is the specter of inflation… See, if you want to whip inflation now, you don’t need to do any of the really […]

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Ed Butowsky: Calculating The True Cost of Living

March 21, 2016

Ed Butowsky: Calculating The True Cost of Living Why it’s much higher than we’re told/sold  Over the past decade, we’ve been told that inflation has been tame — actually below the target the Federal Reserve would like to see. But if that’s true, then why does the average household find it harder and harder to […]

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Inaccurate statistics and the threat to bonds

May 29, 2015

Inaccurate statistics and the threat to bonds Statistics have become very misleading: in particular we are being badly misled into believing that the US is teetering on the edge of price deflation, because the US official rate of inflation is barely positive, a level that US bonds and therefore all other financial markets have priced […]

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