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Well, here is the other side of the coin: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101802839

I just moved from beautiful PB :( I shall return. LA is a pit.

Manhattan Beach. .Net Coder.......... writing a platform that builds economic models based on FRED data. Trader.... not so much anymore till I get my system done.

It is most definitely a power grab. There are new kids in town (literally and figuratively) who are running this show and Barack and Yellen can only stand by and watch. Fortunately, the problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money and that is likely to happen...

You sure about that??? We are seeing a well organized national movement to drive up the minimum wage. From what I read in the press, cities and states are tripping over themselves to embrace this - i.e. Seattle, Mass., etc...

The numerator in the calculation in the chart xandman posted is M2. Have a look at it here: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2SL Even more astonishing is M1: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1SL Here is the currency component of M1...

Sorry for being a noob but why does that chart indicate deflation and not inflation?

VERY informative video xelite. Thanks very much! Verbatim from the video: "The more currency we have, the more prices rise. This is where inflation comes from." "The true definition of inflation is an expansion of the currency supply... Rising prices are merely the symptom." This is really...

Wait! I have just a couple... Maverick74 so you are saying the fed is printing money....... but not really...... because the new money is being locked away in a vault somewhere. Fair enough but I would imagine this would still have some kind of immediate impact on the value of the dollar...

UCantEatBonds: I think you are correct. My mum hasn't done shopping for me for forty years so I see first hand exactly what prices are. Actually, we see this kind of inflation in many places. My favorite example is home appliances. Maytag now builds appliances to last about ten years...

Looking at the Monetary Base chart here it would seem that inflation should be off the chart - Why is inflation under 2% as the fed claims? Yes, I know they under-report inflation, but from the post 2008 4X expansion in the monetary base we see here it seems logical that double digit inflation...