Ed Butowsky: Double Digit Annual Inflation In Many US Cities

Published: June 20, 2015, 12:03 a.m.

b"Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on first time guest, money manager and financial expert Ed Butowsky. Ed's full extensive and impressive bio can be found here:\\xa0http://www.edbutowsky.com/.\\xa0Ed has 25 years of experience working in the financial industry and he created the Chapwood Inflation Index\\xa0http://www.chapwoodindex.com/\\xa0to better accurately measure inflation in the US compared to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI).\\xa0During this 20+ minute interview, Jason asks Ed about the problems with the CPI and why it no longer measures inflation accurately.\\xa0Ed talks about all the games with the inflation formula, substitution, hedonics, geometric weighting, and not counting the basic Core items we need to survive like food, etc in the index.\\xa0Jason then asks Ed for the methodology how he calculates his Chapwood Inflation Index.\\xa0Jason asks Ed if he views the real economy as stuck in a worsening stagflation?\\xa0Ed thinks we have entered a new type of stagflation that will get much worse going forward. He says the real economy is bad.\\xa0To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Ed about financial education among professional athletes and about why professional athletes go bankrupt despite their very high incomes?Jason and Ed also discuss about beating inflation with your investments."