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THAT IS MAH FAINTIN' COUCH!!!! DAMN YOU LIDSEY, RETUHN IT AT ONCE!!!...

Seen it before, watched it again - time well spent. Thanks for posting it....

So to be clear, you think that the Dewey Decimal System is simply a dirty lie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Dec ... sification...

So to be clear, you think that the published inflation rate is simply a dirty lie https://www.statbureau.org/en/united-states/inflation...

Okay - call it mayonnaise muffin, if you like, son. 2% inflation is ****. What the fed has done a fine job of is robbing you of your wealth and good sense. 2% inflation would have gas and milk at half a buck, kid. Purchasing power would have it even lower, given the meteoric rise in worker producti...

That has to top the **** cake - worker productivity has DECLINED? You poor, deluded thing. For starters, "since the great recession" is a blip. It has no relevance to the issue I raised regarding inflation - the 60k house you SAY should be going for 17k, according to your preposterous inflation nu...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power If worker productivity declines...which it has...but inflation does not change...then purchasing power will also decline. https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/m ... ession.htm...

No. They are related. They just are not identical....

So the dollar's purchasing power and inflation are unrelated topics? Thanks for straightening that out....

the purchasing power of the dollar has gone down remarkably. That is correlated with inflation, but it is not identical to it. The fed is not expected to control the dollar purchasing power. I personally tend to blame 'diversity' for most of that....