Posted 1/9/2014 10:25 (#3589095 - in reply to #3588625) Subject: Re: Good news, bad news
Central Missouri
Cash flow (aka wages) is what matters and peoples wages in relation to cost of living have been going down in recent history. Now you can turn stock market assets into cash flow if you chose but the govt is gonna get between 15 and 25% of it and you can sell your house if you so chose to generate same but the problem lies in the relationship of wages to living cost imo. This is the only chart I could find and CPI isn't a good measure as cost of living is going up faster than the govt generated cpi numbers imo. http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/real-wage-vs...
Now if you take the fed governors wages and the wages of employees of the fed reserve, now that is a different story.