About this site

What this is

Since 1971 visualises and explains worldwide inflation since 1900. It is a documented argument, anchored in primary sources, that the post 1913 and post 1971 fiat credit financial system is the primary cause of that inflation. The data is open, the citations are linked, and the mechanism is shown step by step.

What this is not

This is not a balanced both sides exposition. The data carries the position. The mainstream framing of inflation as a force of nature, or as a healthy side effect of a 2 percent target, collapses on contact with the historical record. In the century before 1913 under the classical gold standard, prices were stable or falling while real output rose. Since 1971 prices have risen by roughly 97 percent against a fixed weight of gold. The post 1971 system is the explanation, not the alibi.

This site does NOT:

1. Claim a single named cabal coordinates global monetary policy. The system is an emergent equilibrium of incentives, captured institutions, and path dependence. It does not require a conspiracy to function as one.
2. Prescribe a single replacement for the current system. Returning to a gold standard, adopting Bitcoin, or any other specific remedy is a political decision. This site documents the mechanism. The reader decides.
3. Claim central bankers are personally evil. Most genuinely believe the framework they were trained in. The framework is what is examined here.
4. Claim inflation is the only mechanism of wealth transfer. Taxation, regulatory capture, and asset market structure are also documented and shown.
5. Endorse any specific asset. The site may explain what an asset is and why it exists. It does not say to buy.
6. Predict imminent dollar hyperinflation. The site shows the mechanism that produced hyperinflation in dozens of currencies and lets the reader judge present trajectories.
7. Claim all economists are dishonest. Many genuinely disagree with the Austrian framing in good faith. The site cites disagreements where they sharpen the picture.

Methodology

Every number cites a primary source. The data sources used:

• FRED at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis: M2 money supply, CPI, Federal Reserve balance sheet, federal funds rate, S and P 500, median home price, federal debt.
• Bank of England Millennium of Macroeconomic Data, 1209 to present.
• BIS, the Bank for International Settlements, Basel: annual reports, Basel framework, CPMI papers, jurisdictional CBDC tracker.
• BLS, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index, productivity, real earnings.
• ECB Statistical Data Warehouse for the eurozone.
• NY Fed Household Debt and Credit Report.
• Cato Institute Hanke and Krus World Hyperinflation Table.
• Treasury Fiscal Data for federal debt, daily.
• Atlantic Council CBDC Tracker.
• World Gold Council, central bank reserves and gold price history.

Every external citation link in this site opens in a new tab with rel=noopener. Click any number on the site, and the link lands on the public page that produced it.

Reasoning priors

Pre 1971 economists carry weight. Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Rueff, Hazlitt, plus pre Keynes Marshall, Fisher, Wicksell. Economists writing before the pure fiat era saw the gold standard as a live system. Their analysis is read here without ideological filter.

Inflation is monetary. Cost push, supply shock, and greedflation are political framings. The arithmetic identity MV = PQ holds. Sustained general price rises require sustained money supply expansion. Single supply shocks produce relative price changes, not sustained inflation, unless validated by monetary expansion.

The CPI is a political number. Methodology changes since 1980 (Boskin commission, hedonic adjustments, owners equivalent rent, geometric weighting, substitution) systematically reduce reported inflation versus the lived experience of households. The site shows CPI alongside M2 growth, asset prices, and reconstructed pre 1980 methodology inflation.

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