Comment Re:40 years? (Score 1) 229
Your CPI anecdotal is cute, but wrong. Anecdotally (and in reality), a lot of prices are still below the 2008 level - gasoline, for instance, is still 20% cheaper than at the 2008 peak. (And electronics, of course, are half the price or less for the same performance.) Out of the top-level CPI categories in the US, housing, transportation and recreation are at the same level as in 2008.