Originally Posted by
Urbandrone
We havn't had inflation over 5% since 1990, and the average since then is under 3%. So I would disagree with that part of the statement.
Wrong....
The govt pulls trickery with those numbers. Started under Bill Clinton.
The real inflation number is much higher:
Alternate Inflation Charts
The new (fake news) way of calculating inflation takes into account entirely imaginary things like "value of innovation" and excludes many commodities
Our actual family budgets see around 3 x as much inflation as the govt's imaginary numbers.