Feds say US inflation is 2-4%. It’s at least 10% and rising fast enough to wipe out most people within a decade

Imagine a world in which I was legally allowed to steal 13–30% of your wealth every single year, and lie to you about how much I’m stealing.
Welcome to Planet Earth, 2021.

More specifically, welcome to inflation.

Inflation is something that everyone needs to understand and pay extremely close attention to, otherwise, it will destroy their financial future.

Because prices are rising fast:

• Gas is up 56% since last year.
• Used cars are up 30%.
  Insurance? 17%.
• Laundry? 26%.
• Predators like Uber and Lyft? 11%.
• Restaurants? 4%.
• Pampers and Tampax? Going up 5–9% in September.
• But don’t worry, the Fed’s target inflation is just… wait for it… “2%.”

Do you believe them?

I certainly don’t.

There are three things you need to know about inflation

1. The government is controlled by textbook-definition sociopaths.
2. Those same people are in charge of printing money.
3. Those same people are in charge of manipulating inflation numbers to make it seem like printing money isn’t having disastrous long-term consequences for your purchasing power.

Let’s face it: The corporate-controlled Feds are out of control. They’ve been printing trillions of dollars in fake money to prop up the elites. 30% of all US dollars in existence were printed in the past year.

Here’s what that looks like on a graph:

They’ve been printing trillions of dollars in fake money to prop up the elites. 30% of all US dollars in existence were printed in the past year. Graph: Emles Asset Management
As you can see, this causes a major problem:

Every new dollar printed devalues your dollars. And printing money devalues your dollars a lot. Here’s how much a dollar has devalued since my grandfather was born:

That’s right: Every single one of Grandpa’s hard-earned after-tax dollars is now worth just five cents.

To distract us from the fact that we’re being systemically robbed on a massive scale, the government invented a neat little trick called the Consumer Price Index.

The CPI

According to the government website, the CPI is “a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.”

The CPI used to be a basket of goods that the “average person” spends their money on. Bread, eggs, milk, gas, Fortnite gaming credits. In other words, it’s a quick proxy for inflation. If you know how much consumer prices are up, you theoretically know how much inflation is up.

For example, if the cost of a steak was $5 last year and now it’s $6 this year, steak inflation is 20%. By having a basket of goods that the average person would use, you can theoretically get a good sense of the inflation rate.

But there are three major problems with their CPI scam

1. The first is that it’s incredibly easy to manipulate the data to make it look like inflation is 4X less than it actually is.
2. The second is that it isn’t customized to the individual. It’s the same with GDP numbers — in an age of rampant wealth inequality, GDP numbers are no longer helpful for guesstimating the average citizen’s income. Who cares if a nation has a GDP of $22 trillion if most of it goes to the top? Who cares if America’s GDP per capita is $68,309 when the average citizen earns half that amount? It’s like saying me and Jeff Bezos have an average net worth of $95 billion. We need personalized inflation numbers.
3. The third problem with the CPI scam is that government bureaucrats get to pick and choose what goes in the basket.
   If the price of an item spikes and it wrecks their target inflation number, rather than reporting the truth that the CPI has gone way up, they simply substitute it for a cheaper version of the same item.

During the Bush administration, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan lobbied to change the methodology. He believed that if consumers could no longer afford an item in his basket, he should be able to switch it for a cheaper substitute. Goodbye steak, hello ground beef.

So he did.

And so has every administration since. No more Crest, just generic toothpaste. No more full-loaf whole wheat bread, just a cheap white half-loaf. The Brits just got rid of haircuts and Guinness. Governments are no longer comparing apples to apples, so no wonder the inflation rates are untethered from our experienced reality.

It gets worse.

Governments also realized they could manipulate the inflation rate by just removing items from the basket. In 1983, they removed the cost of buying a house and replaced it with a rental payment. Isn’t tracking the rising cost of the biggest purchase in your life kind of important?

Here’s a shocker: If we compared today’s prices to the same basket of goods that we used back in 1980, real inflation is actually pushing 13%.

The CPI is one of the biggest scams in American history.

Why would governments lie about the real inflation numbers?

1. Because social security benefits are tied to CPI. So are food stamps. And payments to government workers. And military pensions. If the government admitted the real inflation numbers, they’d have to find tens of billions in extra funding to pay people what they’re rightfully owed.
2. We compare stock market prices adjusted for inflation, so if inflation is underestimated, it makes the markets look like they’re doing better than they actually are, hiding the fact that we’re not actually in a technical depression.
3. We compare real wages adjusted for inflation. If the government used the actual inflation numbers, they’d be forced to admit that since 1980 real wages have gone down dramatically.

It’s in their best interests to lie to us.

What’s extremely interesting is that, every once in a while, a bureaucrat slips up and accidentally tells the truth. The Federal Reserve insists they can keep inflation under 2%, but a few weeks ago, the White House published its 10-year budget in which they inadvertently revealed that they don’t even believe their own central bank’s target numbers.

Meaning we can ignore the official government inflation numbers from here on out.

Because the federally-manipulated basket just doesn’t apply to us.

We need to crunch our own inflation numbers.

What’s your inflation number?

It totally depends on what’s in your personal spending basket:

My wife and I love to go out for a nice Sunday roast carvery lunch. It’s pretty standard British fare, and last year, depending on the restaurant, lunch in my area was £9.95–£12.95. Now it’s £11.95–£16.95… 20–30% inflation.

If you’re one of America’s 115 million renters paying the national average rent of $1,124/month, and your rent jumps to $1,180/month, that’s 5% inflation.

If you’re a young Canadian trying to buy a house, you know that average house prices have inflated by over 40% since last year.

Your basket will look very different than mine, but it will almost certainly include expenses such as food, housing, clothing, transportation, medical, insurance, education, and recreation.

We can’t just rely on fake government figures, or even honest average estimates. We’re at a stage in this globalist-individualist-consumerist economy where it only makes sense to track our personalized inflation rate.

How to calculate your real inflation number

It’s really simple:

1. Take your basket of all expenses from last year.
2. Line them up side-by-side with this year’s exact same expenses.
3. Divide this year’s expenses by last year’s expenses.

That’s your Personal Inflation Rate.

I bet you a billion Bitcoin the increase is more than 2%.

If you’re lucky, it’s probably in the 10–30% range.

Tech nerds: We desperately need someone to create a real-time, individual inflation rate calculator. If Starbucks raises their prices or Hellman’s shrinks their mayo jars, consumers should know how it’ll affect their long-term bottom line.

Everyone needs to know their real inflation number. People deserve to know the whole truth about their financial situation.

Now what do I do?

It depends if you want to go broke, break even, or grow wealthy.

The modern economy forces everyone to make a choice:

1. Do you want to fall behind?
2. Do you want to stay even?
3. Do you want to get ahead?

Fall behind: Most people just ignore their real inflation numbers and watch their purchasing power erode year after year. (They probably stopped reading this article five minutes ago.) They scratch their heads and try to figure out why life seems to get harder every year. Eventually, they reach a breaking point, placing the blame on immigrants and voting for extremists.

Stay even: To stay even, tighten your belt and make adjustments. Eliminate or ameliorate high-inflation goods and services. Eat less roast lunches at restaurants and eat more soup at home. Switch to generic. Buy smaller sizes. Buy a bidet. Grow your own tomatoes. Brew your own kombucha.

Get ahead: If you want to get ahead, you have to move the majority of your cash into investment classes that generally keep up with inflation: real estate, commodities, crypto, stocks, etc.

The problem with real estate speculation is that for-profit landlording is morally wrong and it inflates the real estate market.

The problem with commodities speculation is that it drives up food prices and starves poor people.

The problem with crypto speculation is that it’s a giant Ponzi scheme.

The problem with stock market speculation is that you’re passively skimming money off the time, talent, and effort of active workers.

To get ahead by these routes means someone has to fall behind.
It almost makes you wonder if we need to seriously re-think the global economy.

It’s almost as if we need to move to a circular bioeconomy where democracy determines fairness, nature determines sustainability, and instead of earning profits off people who are weaker than ourselves, we all live off our incomes and retire on our savings in a community-first economy without inflation.

The cost of living is far too important to entrust to politicians. [Medium]

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