Man, I’m sure glad it was only ‘companies’ that paid higher prices and not the general public.
Check out the Producer Price Index from this economist. See the deflation/inflation cycle? We are in a big inflation cycle at the moment, thanks to The Fed.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/
The Dems and the MSM don’t want to realize it, but when Rick Perry called QE “treasonous”, he had the ear of a whole lot of voters.
No kidding, Sherlock.../s
That excuse is getting pretty lame now. In this day of powerful computers, you mean to tell me they couldn't figure out a program that would smooth out these "volatiles" so that they could be included and give a more realistic figure? At the least, somebody on our side should do it and constantly put that figure alongside the government's.