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The Million-Dollar Economy: When Everybody Has More Dollars but the Dollar Buys Less
The U.S. money supply has expanded nearly fifteenfold since 1980, while consumer prices have quadrupled. Household wealth, wages, housing, and everyday expenses have followed very different trajectories. Using historical Federal Reserve, BLS, and Census data, I examine the expansion of nominal wealth and purchasing power, with an interactive dashboard modeling possible outcomes through 2037.
Published Nov 1, 2026
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The CPI Signal Problem: When the Official Inflation Number Stops Explaining Reality
A Pattern Nexus data analysis audit using official BLS CPI data from 1960 through April 2026 to compare headline inflation against fixed-basket, current-method, and trimmed-basket frameworks.
Published Jun 10, 2026