I doubt a 2011 Cadillac DTS is directly comparable to a 1980 Cadillac Sedan Deville. There's a lot more technology in a 2011, more advanced creature comforts, etc.

ie, if you were to make a car with the build quality and features (am/fm radio, etc) of a 1980 Cadillac, but with modern engineering and assembly, it'd probably be significantly less than $46,280. Especially if they could expect to sell in 1980-level quantities rather than today's.

Whether you know it or not, exactly that sort of reasoning is what is used to manipulate the CPI numbers.

> Don't bother polluting this thread with facts. HN is clearly dominated by Keynesians. Your dissent will not be tolerated.

This really isn't a constructive comment. It really possible to discuss different measures of inflation without sticking a general label on people who disagree with you and saying that they live in an alternate universe.

My comment was more a reference to the fact that my original post, and most other posts that express inflationary views, are rapidly downvoted.

This opinion is very unpopular amongst the Keynesians/deflationists at HN, who prefer downvoting as a means of expressing disagreement.

There's a difference between saying that you're concerned with the level of inflation we might face if the Federal Reserve decides to do more quantitative easing, and saying that we're going to end up like Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will inevitably have another three QE packages. One is a reasonable argument to make. The other is a political prediction that is very well may not be true, attached to some scary comments about what could happen if your prediction is true. The thing is, we haven't had zimbabwe-like inflation yet, more quantitative easing is not an inevitability, and even if we had more QE we wouldn't necessarily have hyperinflation.

You're trying to pick a fight with people who don't think baseless predictions tied to scenarios of doom have no place on HN by calling them names. That's why you're being downvoted.