Where can I find reliable price data for 2007-2009 for food and energy?

Economics Economics Questions
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Over at ShadowStats, John Williams pegs inflation for 2008 at 5%. A lot of people have a hard time believing that since there was an asset crash. But an asset crash is not deflation. It would be easier to show people that the cost of living actually rose in 2008 if I had reliable data for things like the cost of electricity, a bag of rice, etc.. from 2007, 2008, and 2009 to show that no such “crash” in those areas occured.

It should be simple enough to ask someone, “when the housing bubble crashed, did your electricity bill drop 40% too?” But unfortunately, as you know, it’s simply not enough.

Thanks in advance,

David

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you can probably start keeping track of the things you purchase and your income to see if you pay more for goods or less or if you make more or less.

use a spreadsheet to do this.

i dont know if the shadowstats info is true or not. if they use previous govt figures i dont know if that would be any better than new govt figures or methodology.

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“But unfortunately, as you know, it’s simply not enough.”

this doesnt make any sense. could you be a little clearer about what you mean here?