On: Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over diff...

[ekianjo]

This only works if you consider the "official inflation rate". We all know that the real inflation is often much higher so the charts would look very different over time.

[sbelskie → ekianjo]

How do we “know” this?

[lazide → sbelskie]

Paid for healthcare, housing, or schooling recently?

[rat87 → lazide]

So no answer except an appeal to anecdotes?

[lazide → rat87]

‘Core’ inflation excludes most of this, explicitly.

[https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/30/the-most-splendid-housing-...], [https://www.pgpf.org/article/why-are-americans-paying-more-f...]

Average Housing costs as a multiple of average salary are at 10x, and increasing. Roughly where they were in the 80’s during hyper inflation.

Healthcare spend has increasing from 5% of GDP in ‘62 to 17% of GDP in 2022.

Education cost data is similarly insane - [https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college#:~:text=Th....]

With an average 4 year degree (living on campus) costing > $100k.

If you need a study to tell you traffic is terrible right now, you might just have no idea what’s happening.