The US government is telling everybody that inflation is 3.4% per year. That is not correct. Try 14.2% and that’s about right. Source : gold/usd 1 year simple moving average.

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.townOP
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    7 months ago

    Well, shadow stats agrees with me. According to the way they measured inflation in the 1980s, we are about 12%. So even if my estimate was wrong, it’s not off by far.

    And the way they measured back then included things such as, oh, I don’t know, food and energy, which are two things everybody just happens to need.