Inflation: The Biggest Scam of Our Time

Jul 7, 2022

The Consumer Price Index is manipulated in three major ways: weighting, substitution and hedonic indexing. No doubt you’ve experienced it first hand by now; inflation is the biggest scam of our time.

Persistence of the Jobless Recovery

Apr 24, 2013

Most people noticed when the bureau of economic analysis released GDP growth numbers for Q4’10 of 3.2%. What most people have not noticed is a rise in the level of national affluence. There appears to be a disconnect that is growing between the numbers that are...

Inflation isn’t Coming … It’s Here

Apr 6, 2013

At JasonHartman.com, we have been warning about inflation for quite a while. For a long time, the Consumer Price Index has shown what appear to be very benign levels of price increases, leading some to believe that the monetary expansion required to finance profligate...

Helping the Poor by Making Them Poorer

Aug 31, 2012

In the current election-year political climate, the expected rhetoric about “helping the poor” is being heard from almost every politician and political propagandist in the nation. Typically, this flavor of campaign speech involves a proposal to increase taxes on “The...

Inflation Predictions for 2011

Aug 22, 2012

The general price level in 2010 relative to 2009 shows average price levels that are nearly flat. The reason for this trend is significant commodity price increases in 2007 and 2008 that collapsed after the global financial crisis. Much of the reason for the price...