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To: Toddsterpatriot

The Fed has done a smash up job, too.

We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t because we have corrupt, self serving citizen of the world elitists who are treasonous, without real education, wisdom, and honor. Our goose is cooked no matter what happens.


17 posted on 07/24/2012 11:18:31 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

It says a lot that the Fed uses core inflation devoid of the cost of necessities food and energy to evaluate the effectiveness of it’s policies.

The source of “I can’t eat my iPad”


19 posted on 07/25/2012 6:18:28 AM PDT by khelus
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To: SaraJohnson
The blue line ia a measure of how well the Fed has fulfilled its mandate of price stability after removing the 'enhancements' that changed the CPI from a measure of the cost of a set standard of living to the measure of a declining standard of living:


20 posted on 07/25/2012 6:28:53 AM PDT by khelus
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To: SaraJohnson
Her's another chart using 1931 dollars:


21 posted on 07/25/2012 6:35:41 AM PDT by khelus
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