
Inflation, Deflation, and Truflation
Money Tree Investing
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The Consequences of Inflation
I think one of the challenges for a lot of people is you see this inflation number this year went up to 9%. Now it's at 5% or a little bit below, but it's right around 5%. So if you're looking at that and then, yeah, go to the store and you're seeing 20, 30, 40% inflation in certain goods, people think that the measurement is wrong. How can you have oil prices, gas prices, energy prices, food and goods going up that much and yet we only have 5% inflation? It doesn't make sense to aA lot of people forget these numbers. These are just year and year, percentage changes.
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