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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AK2004 who wrote (13834)	5/13/2004 3:03:04 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

ak, I'm looking at what I am paying out relative to last year (along with everyone else at my firm) for insurance, co-pays, deductibles, and prescriptions. With us it is a once a year hike, but it was about 40% year over year. And our co. says their increase was even more. Then I got a letter from my grad school wanting me to help them do something, and I will because I'm a sucker for education. And they mentioned tuition and fees, which have increased by a compounded 14% a year the past five years and I think that is a high rate. I know these two sectors don't go into CPI or PPI, but they are impacting the real inflation rate. If you were just talking the past few months, then mea culpa. I think it's been inflating at a rapid rate for many years and the reported numbers are artificially low.