Brace Yourself For The Coming Economic Transformation

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-11/brace-yourself-coming-economic-transformation

Brace Yourself For The Coming Economic Transformation


by Tyler Durden
May 11, 2017 6:30 PM
Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com,
If the average person in the US feels as though they are going nowhere fast, there is a real reason for it.
Federal Reserve data shows people are earning less than they did 17 years ago. But the real story is even worse than that.
The chart below shows that median income in the US is actually down over the last 17 years and is only 3% higher now than it was 30 years ago. Those are inflation-adjusted numbers.
But the reality is that, for the average person, inflation has been much higher than the average of 2% per year over that time. This is because the things that the average person actually buys—like housing and education and health care and all the other necessities of life—are rising at a much faster rate than 2%.

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