I recently received a scathing comment from "Cameron" on an article I had written several years ago entitled Food Price Inflation Since 1913. In the article I presented an interesting table that compared the prices of various food items between January 1913 and January 2013. I actually thought it was quite a good picture of price comparisons over a 100 year period. Here is a portion of one of the tables presented:   Click for Full Table. Cameron took exception to fact that some items like flour increased by 1488%.  Because of that he accused me of sensationalism and not taking into account  inflation. At first I was confused, after all isn't the whole table about inflation?  Then … [Read more...]