Does inflation really exist

by Sommer Casady

Twenty years ago minimum wage was at three dollars an hour. That may seem extremely low seeing as how minimum wage has just reached its all time high at eight dollars an hour. But the truth is that although Americans are e...read more

by Magu Nguru

One of the determinants of the perfomance of an economy is the inflation rate. In most countries it is arrived at by looking at the changes in the prices of basic items purchased by the public like foodstuff, oil, and othe...read more

by David Thill

Inflation has a technical, economic meaning, but the way we see it every day is that the price of things we buy and sell tends to go up. Believe it or not, this is actually normal, healthy, and just part of people being pe...read more

by David Mclinn

According to the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation hovered around 2.85% in 2007, and has been teetering between two and three percent annually since 2000. If this was gospel, the majority of Americans would be clas...read more

by Robert Paturzo-Elliott

I am Australian and my economy is no different than the American Economy, at the moment their is big happenings in economic circles concerning inflation, the Australian dollar in the year 2000 was approxiamately 78 cents i...read more

by Matthew Scott

Inflation exists and its very existence is demonstratively inhibitive. While some sophistry may be implemented with the effect of allaying or misdirecting our concerns related to the greatest and most usurping of taxes, th...read more

by Garrett Diamond

There is a slow crumble out there. That's not an economic slowdown it's not a down turn or a correction, and a not a recession it's a depression of life's being turned up side. My wife and I are living at Costco and off ou...read more

by E. Manning

U.S. business and consumers paid more for food, energy, gasoline, automobiles and most other products last month and last year. Recently, the government confirmed an inflation rate of 8%, which is still vastly underestimat...read more

by Robert Charman

Inflation, I was thinking about inflation. How does hyperinflation come about? They have hyperinflation in Zimbabwe currently. and having considered this,I have come to the conclusion that hyperinflation requires the c...read more

by Adrian Tay

Inflation refers to the general increase in prices of goods/services, and is usually measured annually. There is no doubt that inflation exists, but perhaps the issue at hand is to understand the mechanism behind the econo...read more