Bernanke says current inflation is below 2 percent. Admittedly, Bernanke's not alone in touting this fiction; it's more or less official government policy, ever since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began excluding food and energy costs from its official "core inflation" measure. Yes, you read that right: The government's inflation index excludes food and energy. (This is the same model Al Gore uses to prove his diet is working.)
So the price of your labor is holding steady. It's the price of the things you need to buy that's skyrocketing.
Here, then, are some inflation figures concurrent with his "60 Minutes" appearance that Bernanke could pretend were irrelevant to his "official" inflation measure:
In other words, inflation is already raging.
- Oil prices are up 21% in the last year
- Corn is up 49% in the last year
- Wheat is up 41% in the last year
- Beef is up 28% in the last year
- Sugar is up 32% in the last year
- Coffee is up 40% in the last year
Any wonder why the boat business in the U.S>A. is off by 95%!!!!
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