The EPI....or Everyday Price Index

The publicly reported numbers on growth of the country and or its inflation rate are supplied by government workers....and supplied to the constituents on an as needed basis and then the papers/ media accord them the appropriate spins.

After real inflation (the true cost of everything) ....lowered purchasing power, higher taxes, increased cost of food, energy....plus demographics....it should surprise no one that it is very hard to get ahead in today's world. Especially a giant Ponzi like scheme to not tell the truth, print currency and manipulate the true cost of capital via artificially low interest rates....at this point only the government benefits from the above. Sadly.

Yield chasers...those investors forced by zero interest rate policies into investments they understand very little.. will pay a heavy price... when they are soon forced to sell at a loss... paper that is thought to be safe and "with a yield".

More debt in the western world has been created now than can ever be paid back....at least in current dollars. When China admits the obvious.. of a slower forward growth projection, because of a slowing western world choking on its debt...buyer beware! The "modern economy" now is going ex growth...in this situation all the current debt becomes unmanageable...and rather quickly.

Non of the public debt you have been reading about has been slowed...it is in fact increasing......

Investors continue to shun equity.....their mistake. Investors pulled more than $130 billion from the equity mutual funds in 2011..the largest withdrawal in 25 years....and four times the amount in 2010.

The stock market in general is over bought and due for a pause that refreshes.

Danny Boy seen here looking forward to green grass.