Total U.S. Cumulative Inflation Data 1910 - 2025

[harddriver]

Dave Brat

@brateconomics
·
Dec 14, 2023

Total U.S. Cumulative Inflation (inflationdata.com)

As you can see from the chart below, compounding something for over 100 years at 3.24% will result in well over 2000% (cumulative) inflation.

Notice, PRICES only go up on graph BELOW, way UP !!!

The Consumer Price index (CPI-U) for January 1913 was 9.8. The CPI-U for July 2022 was 296.276. This means that something that cost $9.80 in January 1913 would cost $296.28 in July of 2022!

In the 1970s, it was 7.25%, and in the 1980s, inflation averaged 5.82%. Each of those decades was especially hard economically for people trying to make ends meet.

Since prices increased but wages didn’t keep up. So far in the 2020s, the average annual inflation is 4.75%, so if this continues, we could be in for a rough decade.

 

[Ben Waylin]

The Creature From Jekyll Island.

-- G. Edward Griffin

 

[Laputan Machine]

There is no way it's only 5%.

This inflation was done on purpose for a couple reasons:

It greatly devalues the debt owned by foreign entities like China and Japan.
It is effectively looting boomers savings to prevent their kids/kids kids from having a bunch of cash without working (IE it makes their kids debt slave harder)

 

[harddriver]

There is no way it's only 5%.

This inflation was done on purpose for a couple reasons:

It greatly devalues the debt owned by foreign entities like China and Japan.
It is effectively looting boomers savings to prevent their kids/kids kids from having a bunch of cash without working (IE it makes their kids debt slave harder)

Technically it is 4.75% but that percentage is applied to the total prices from last year which also had a inflation factor applied to it plus costs are cumulative year over year from the previous year so the aggregate price continues to inflate.

https://truflation.com/

So true cumulative inflation is pushing 23% as the dollar continues to be devalued. But deflation may be on the horizon as people no longer take on loans and more debt which will be the deathknell to the Keynesians as they need constant debt creation to keep the velocity of money abreast of deflation but deflation will also implode the real functioning economy much like 1929.

 

[Laputan Machine]

Yeah, I think the US and China is in a game of chicken as to who can keep their real estate prices artificially high. The US does it through shit like Blackrock, Vangaurd which are US assets, China does it through building fake cities. (The US Govt gave these groups management of US public pensions, which is literally trillions of dollars to play with, they use that to buy up property to inflate prices).

I think the US is in a worse spot though since everything is so decrepit here compared to China and probably 60% of jobs in the US are fake/don't actually generate wealth, compared to China which has very few 'fake' jobs and actually produces stuff.

Whoever blinks loses the entire game. The US situation is basically an omega powerful position held by complete retards, so they will probably lose. That's when they orchestrate WW3.


There is some homesteading youtube channel I watch occasionally, some Danish guy that moved to Russia like 10 years ago after he married a Russian woman. He's done vids of showing inflation in Russian supermarkets and it is basically non-existent. Some things have gone up but most haven't, interestingly a lot of Western products have not gone up much at all.




Heres one vid from a year ago, stores in the US were definitely bare bones in a lot of areas during this time.