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Consumers Buy Into Disinflation

For a visual perspective on inflation and the historic periods of deflation in the US, here's a chart that I update monthly with the release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

dshort.com/inflation/i...

The chart also shows post 1982 inflation if the BLS had the same method as it employed from 1913 to 1982. See shadowstats.com for a full explanation of the alternate CPI, which is tracked at that website.