Comparing the cost of living between 1975 and 2017:Â Inflation continues to eat away at purchasing power in housing and other big ticket items.
For the most part people widely misunderstand inflation. It is a complicated topic. If you ask the man and woman on the street they would respond that inflation is the price of goods going up. This is true in some respect but what people see is merely the outcome of larger forces at work like […]
The Inflation Nightmare: How inflation is slowly consuming your income since 2000. The four horsemen of inflation include college tuition, medical care, housing, and stagnant wages.
Inflation has a slow destructive impact on your purchasing power. Most people don’t think twice about inflation. They just assume that the price of goods will go up because that is the way it has always been. Yet that is not true. The type of inflation we are seeing is debt supported inflation which has […]
The story of inflation between 1996 and 2016 is of rising prices in things that you need: Prices skyrocket for middle class goods and services.
Inflation is rarely discussed in the mainstream press. Most people wake up every day and simply believe that prices go up as a natural state. These deeply held assumptions usually crack when new revelations happen like centuries ago with new scientific discoveries showing that our planet is not the center of the universe. Yet somehow […]
Venezuela provides a glimpse into the horrors of inflation gone wild: A dozen eggs cost $150 USD as hyper inflation wrecks economy.
The award for worst performing economy in 2016 would likely go to Venezuela. What could possibly go wrong when the government tries to control absolutely everything in a petro state? Apparently everything can go wrong and you now have runaway inflation. At this point Venezuela’s currency is in a death spiral of hyperinflation. A dozen […]