if you read the plea from the Argentine above.. they say "peer networks to measure value" .. it implies that the entire inflation is NOT one single number. It is in sector by sector, with local "shadows" .. In the USA, it is housing obviously in large populated areas, but also health care and the cost of a University education. Those measures have climbed triple digits while yes, petrol and candy-bars are the same.
Sectoral inflation is a real issue! But that's the one thing that buying gold can't help you with, because it necessarily means there's something different about that market rather than the money supply as a whole.
> health care and the cost of a University education
See "Baumol cost disease" - things which require highly skilled human inputs tend to get more expensive as automation makes everything else cheaper.
I don't believe you that the inflation rate for housing or education is at 100%. If you mean that there's been 100% inflation since some point in the past then, well, yes that's true but it's also true of every other good. But when we say that Argentina has 100% inflation it means that the nominal price of goods doubles every year.
> inflation rate for housing or education is at 100%.
not per year, but .. there are residential housing listings here in California that have doubled in not very long.. I think the point is, that price increases are not uniform.. and it is related to structural forces of money, as well as markets
It's not uniform. The inflation of housing prices in SF over the last decade has averaged somewhere around 6% leading to a ~100% increase, way higher than the roughly 2% average inflation. But comparing a ~100% increase over a decade to a ~100% increase over a year is very misleading
except that there are houses in other places besides San Francisco.. and that those prices have volatility not seen in San Francisco.. is there is a motivated-reason behind defending the house prices here? projecting stability ?
I was using SF because it's known to have had a much higher house price inflation than other places, in order to try to be charitable to your case. If you look at the overall US housing market then you need to go back a lot further than a decade to see 100% inflation.
actually I tracked housing prices directly here in California on a large scale.. the key to resolving the two positions here is that, volatility is exactly how a one hundred percent increase in price happens.. first drop, the rise, then drop a lot, then rise alot. Meanwhile in the most desirable a.k.a. most expensive zip codes (or similar). the rise has been steady, even at 2008, and as you say, not one hundred percent. Lastly, ordinary people like you and I are not privileged to see the vast amount of cheating that goes on with residential valuation, loans and the like. Loans for more than a realistic value on a property, are as old as Sicily.
if you read the plea from the Argentine above.. they say "peer networks to measure value" .. it implies that the entire inflation is NOT one single number. It is in sector by sector, with local "shadows" .. In the USA, it is housing obviously in large populated areas, but also health care and the cost of a University education. Those measures have climbed triple digits while yes, petrol and candy-bars are the same.