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By CPI deflator, $100 in 1969 is worth $634.76 today.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Not sure if that calls into question your statement, or suggests that the CPI is drastically understating inflation.



By CPI deflator we never doubled our (US) monetary base since 2007.


I'm not following you. What's your point?


What exactly you don't follow? You need me to define 'monetary base' to you? You need me to explain to you how to use google/wiki?




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