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Rath I think you're exaggerating the inflation issue. Sure, the magnitude of certain comparisons may be affected, but in general I believe even if you adjusted these for inflation they would fundamentally carry the same message. Especially since many of the graphs are showing unprecedented situations within their time frames. I even posted the calculation for one of the graphs proving that inflation doesn't even come close to explaining the apparent troubles. A similar calculation can be done on the other graphs.

As for your claim that these graphs were "designed to mislead", note that the source of the data (and the graphs themselves) is the Federal Reserve, not any blogger...

You can generate the graphs yourself here:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

As for your GDP graph, note that GDP includes government spending... which is what exploded to unsustainable levels in order to keep GDP figures positive.

 



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