Inflation Since The American Revolution | Zero Hedge

As is clear by this chart, inflation was virtually unheard of until the Creature from Jekyll Island the Federal Reserve took over. However, more importantly, things didn’t really start to get bad until the 1970?s right after Nixon took the nation off the gold standard in 1971. Since that time, America has seen a period of non-existent real wage growth and a huge gap grow between the rich and the poor ever since. Nothing like livin’ the debt slave dream!

via Guest Post: Inflation Since The American Revolution | Zero Hedge.

Dollars vs Money | The Grey Enigma added a page (see above)

Dollars vs Money « The Grey Enigma.

The U.S. Retail Collapse Accelerates | Jeff Nielsen, BBCanada

…We see two things in the chart above on average American wages. First we see how (in real dollars) wages for the average U.S. worker have been falling steadily for more than 40 years. Those wages have now fallen by more than 50%, all the way down to the same levels as during the Great Depression. And we see how the U.S. government’s lies about inflation have almost entirely concealed this relentless collapse in wages. How convenient.

Meanwhile, we see the percentage of Americans who are actually working also plummeting downward, to a 30-year low. The collapse in wages has been accompanied by a collapse in employment levels. Combined, it translates into a collapse in consumer purchasing power of well in excess of 50%.

The great Economic Myth (naturally perpetuated by the U.S. government) is that “the world can’t live without” the American Consumer. The truth is that the rest of the world has been gradually learning how to live without the American consumer for the past 40 years, as the American consumer is literally less than half what he used to be. The real-and-obvious question instead is how will the U.S.’s consumer economy be able to survive the Death of the U.S. Consumer?… via Economy: The U.S. Retail Collapse Accelerates ETF DAILY NEWS.

ShadowStats No. 395: September CPI, PPI, Real Retail Sales, Housing Starts…

via No. 395: September CPI, PPI, Real Retail Sales, Housing Starts, Industrial Production.

• Consumer and Wholesale Inflation Jumped in September

• September’s Annual Inflation: 3.9% (CPI-U), 4.4% (CPI-W), 11.5% (SGS)

• Annual PPI Inflation Hits 6.9% in September

 

 

Consumers paid more for food, gas in September – Yahoo! Finance

“Consumers paid more for food and gas last month, although inflation outside those volatile categories was tame.  The Labor Department says the Consumer Price Index rose 0.3 percent in September, below a 0.4 percent rise in August. Excluding food and energy, so-called core prices increased 0.1 percent, the smallest rise since March.

Inflation has worsened this year, after the cost of oil, grains and other commodities spiked in the spring. But economists expect price increases to moderate in the coming months as weak growth lowers commodity prices…” via Consumers paid more for food, gas in September – Yahoo! Finance.