Conquered and captivated under illusions maintained, a people kept in silence by smartly-dressed edicts and articles of shame — the clever comptrollers and dutiful deceivers, their methods are madness with ends much the same. The methods used to support every claim, the issues described squeezed into a single frame, to suit their grand strategy in their sheer political game. * * * Apart from the ever-changing calculus around the basket of goods and the suite of hedonic adjustments, one thing I find strange about the discussion around the matter of inflation is that (in addition to the proper definition of ‘inflation’, and thus the proper method for measuring it and gauging its effects) nobody ever seems to talk about this: the fact that, as the base (whether prices or the money supply) increases, the percentage change may shrink (or appear relatively small) while the actual gains (in prices or money supply) are rather significant. The following demonstrates the p...