This is priceless. You have a story about tuna companies skimping on tuna. You have no proof for this. Instead, you insist that I buy tuna, and somehow magically compare it to "the beforetimes".
Sorry, I really don't know what your point here is. Do you?
You can not have it both ways.
Can't have what? Tuna?
You can not discount anecdotal examples no matter how numerous in favor of official government data no matter how flawed and say the government approach is somehow rational, scientific and correct.
I most certainly can. The anecdotal examples are not really all that numerous. And no one here has shown any flaw whatsoever in the government data, because no one has actually address the government data in any objective or scientific way. I doubt anyone here (including myself) has even actually looked at the government data.
Inflation is built into the very structure of the non market based economy erected by that Supreme Bolshevik, FDR.
On that we agree. Inflation at a certain pace is basically the normal state of affairs. And guess what? The government statistician agrees with you too. He reported positive inflation in 2007Q3.
And yet you're still arguing w/him. Based on nothing. (except something about tuna). Are you guys really under the impression that when the government says "inflation was 0.8%", you can say "but there was inflation!" and you're something disputing the government?
It may not be possible to find the statistics and fact based arguments you seek in what is fundamentally an irrational intellectual construct (the modern economy).
Gobbledygook.
It is impossible to address an irrational premise in an objective, scientific way. This country has lived in a fiat government scrip currency economy for nearly a century.
All the numbers generated by all the Harvard educated card carrying Bolshevik Kakistocrats are meaningless outside the universe they exist to support.
It is not unlike Church Doctrine which insists the Sun revolves around the Earth. No one can find any flaw with the reasoning of the Bishops, Cardinals and Pope because to do so would be hearsy.
If you wish to see the government data do a Google search for M1/M2 money supply. There will be at least one dot gov site with more charts and graphs than you can shake a stick at.
When the Goobermint Kakistocrats revise their numbers upward in three to six months ( and they will revise their numbers upward) you can ponder the value of an exquisitely precise barometer of real time inflation known as the can of tuna or you can debate the importance of the experts failure to accurately capture the meaning of events as they occur.
That which is unsustainable can not, by defintion, be sustained.
Make of it what you will.
Best regards,