Ein bemerkenswerter Artikel, der verschiedene Inflationsbereinigungen aufarbeitet.
Aber auch die Arbeitslosenzahlen der USA mit ihren div."Varianten":
"...As those who have read my past columns understand, both of these reported figures understate U.S. unemployment. According to John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics (http://www.shadowstats.com), using the BLS methodology before it was changed under President Clinton, the current U.S. unemployment rate is about 22 percent.....
The references to the price of gold rising to all-time record high levels are misleading. There has been significant inflation since gold peaked at $850 in early 1980. Using the current government statistics on inflation, the price of gold would have to reach (depending on whose calculation you use) somewhere between $2,100 and $2,600 just to match the 1980 record of $850. John Williams, whose work I cited above, notes that the U.S. government has changed the way it calculates the fluctuation in consumer prices. By his calculation, using the government’s 1980 methodology, the price of gold would have to reach about $6,500 to really represent a record high price...
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