[Publius]

Government stats have been lies since 1961 when JFK had the Commerce Department juggle the books for political effect. Since 1992, the Fed has been willing to lie to protect whatever party is in power.

You have to go outside the government or quasi-government (the Fed) to get real numbers. Shadowstats is the place to go today but it costs.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

What scares me is that someone showed me a chart once showing me that our debt situation is something like two times worse than it was after WW2.The inflation rate after WW2 was bad enough. the 1970s were bad. but what we are heading for AFTER we bottom out fairly soon looks to be out of the world and beyond my imagination (im far from being an expert, but I like math and have common sense.

There is no leadership in the United States. There is no leadership in Europe. There are no statesmen in the west right now. That scares me more than depression. Depression is one thing. but what happens next ? Germany after WW1 ?