A couple of years ago you were saying we had massive inflation because commodity prices (oil, gold, etc.) were soaring. Now those prices are collapsing. So by your logic we must be seeing massive deflation at the moment, right?
If you look at a commodity index (basket of commodities to show a represenitive trade-weighted price indicator for commodities) chart over the last couple of decades you'll see the graph line going up and down like a seismograph in an earthquake. That's why we don't include things like food and energy prices in how we measure inflation because it gives a false reading.
Here is headline inflation, which includes food and energy prices, and core inflation, which doesn't.
But how do we know that the government isn't making the inflation numbers up? Because clearly that's what's happening according to the fucknuts who've been predicting hyperinflation for the last six years. Because it's impossible that they're wrong -- the only reason for the fact that we're hearing about deflation and not hyperinflation must be that governments are lying.
Except no. Here's an independent measure of inflation, the billion price index, run by MIT it meausres hundreds of millions of consumer and producer prices on the internet. Here it is.
From when it started look how closely it maps the consumer price index (government measure of inflation).
Up to date numbers here.
You could also look at the yearly nominal GDP increaseand add on the government inflation numbers and see if it looks legit, then imagine that you really did have ten or fifteen percent inflation that this would mean that the economy was really contracting about ten percent a year. We know what that looks like -- at the end of the Bush administration it really was contracting that much and America was losing a million jobs a month. Now it's gaining 250 000 a month which is what it should be doing if the numbers are legit. Which they fucking are and the numbers prove it. But this last paragraph is far beyond the comprehension ability of a Korean English teacher.
Stick to teaching English and don't worry your little head about things you don't understand.
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