The Cato article includes a link to the U.S. Census bureau so the information presented in the article is readily accessed and verified.
Here's a link to the CPI, so you can see that there is no inflation.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
That's sort of my point...the ways of calculating these various indicators have been tinkered with a lot in the past few years. For the CPI, the market basket mean was measured until the Bushies took charge at the Department of Labor, now they select a median representative consumer product to represent the whole economy. These numbers are not credible, and are not reflecting the reality most people can see all around them.




. Can I be a conservative hippie?