Money, Inflation, Deficits, and the Consumer Price Index.

There are several articles, graphs, and links, so I have set up a separate page. Items will be added and updated as I have time (and get more information).

MONEY
Understanding Money and Five Myths
A Primer on Money and its Glossary
Seignorage
LETS Print Funny Money
The Euro and the Oil Crisis?
Interest and Religion
For More About Money, see the web page of William F Hummel

INFLATION
"In all countries the usual price index numbers exaggerate the increase in
the cost of living and understate the laborer's real reward per unit of work".
-- John Maynard Keynes, 1921

The Definition of Inflation
CPI: Good as Gold?
The Oil Crisis & Rashomon
Black Gold and Yellow Gold
Inflation & the Federal Reserve
Inflation & Monetary Theory, Part I
Inflation & Monetary Theory, Part II
What is PPP? and CPI & PPP
BLS Corrects CPI!
Why You Should Be Alert in Econ Class
Dropping Balls: A Simple Experiment
Inflation Data

Living in the Past?
Molly Pitcher, The Unibomber, and George Washington
Was the Past Cheaper?
How Fast is Modern Economic growth?
The Cost of Housing 1980-2000
Excellect discussions of the falling wages problem, by
The Grinch
and by Edward Flaherty

Deflation
Jack Kemp on Gold & World Deflation
Deflation & Negative CPI?
Deflation as a Goal?

James K Galbraith's Comments, and my Reply
Paul Krugman on CPI & the Rat Raceand Steve Landsburg on Wealthier Than Thou
and my reply

The Testimony of KATHARINE G. ABRAHAM, COMMISSIONER OF LABOR STATISTICS
Table of Average Weekly Wages
Graph of the effect of the Boskin Correction on Family Income
Graph of the effect of the Boskin Correction on Gross Domestic Product

DEFICITS
Are Deficits GOOD? Three Essays and Two Comments
Essays by
Warren Mosler: Full Employment AND Price Stability
Willaim Vickrey: 15 Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism
We Need a BIGGER Deficit
Comments by:
Jim Blair
Grinch

LINKS TO:
The Boskin Report
An Overview of Theories of Inflation.
The History of Money
The Inflation (CPI) Calculator: Different Times
Cost of Living Calculator: Different Places
What Was the US GDP Then?
Currency Exchange Rates: Present & Past

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