January through October, 2012.  Cumulative, percentage basis.



 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdEgxb0lEb1h1M2htM05sY0pXd3FXQ2c&oid=3&zx=phpxuw8vp9sy

Monthly data:
 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdEgxb0lEb1h1M2htM05sY0pXd3FXQ2c

Daily time-series:
 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHJuUE1mUkFxa3A0eHBDQkxZLVVFZmc

lol. how do you come up with this stuff?

actually, i didn't state that quite right:  if you'd initially bet $0.01 starting in June of 2011, double or nothing, and reinvested the winnings each week for the 70 straight weeks since then, you'd be sitting on a profit of $11,805,916,207,174,113,034.24.

I must admit I'm not an American but I can tell you prices are going up in the UK. You can see it with fuel and food prices.

Pretty much every American I've heard says it is happening in the US too, so don't get too excited over your dollars.

Love it!

What comes after a Trillion Dollars?

huh?

yes, A BITCOIN

Honey is an interesting case, but not for reasons of deflation. Bees are dying all over the world (particularly where GMOs are grown), so using this as an indicator for macroeconomics might not be the best case. Using it as an indicator for much larger shit going down around the world, sure.

In October 2012 I spent £213.94 in supermarkets. In October 2011 I spent £197.26. I put that down to either an 8% price inflation or I'm drinking more wine...

BTW: I would have spent more in October 2012 but there was a period of a few days where I did not need to spend as much, so there is an underestimation in price or wine inflation.

Yep, this about right I would say

Ha ha, nice stat ! Someone should look for GDP revisions, there might be a bias too  


Not only there's a problem with bees, but i wouldn't consider honey fungible. There's an infinity of honeys out there, depending on the strain of bees and the kind of nectar they are collecting. And I'm not talking about honey debasement (cut with syrup, the cheap shit you can find in stores)


To come back on the eternal inflation/deflation debate, I have to admit US administration did a good job so far at keeping stocks from collapsing while keeping oil (and metals) from exploding. Probably not sustainable, but nicely done. We'll see how things evolve after the election, and in which way.
The results will probably don't matter much, though an interesting fact is that Wall Street is clearly rooting for Romney (including the (in)famous Goldman Sachs), and that Obama seems to be in the lead (at least according to InTrade, and looking at campaign contributions).

I still have troubles thinking Goldman Sachs doesn't rule the world, but maybe some things might change in a few months.

No way, pic or it didn't happen