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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 4666838, member: 105571&quot;]There is a body of evidence and opinion that I&#039;ve read about in the WSJ for a long time that alleges that the government&#039;s official CPI is too large.&nbsp; I&#039;m just a lowly engineer and not dour enough to be an economist (Economics-the dismal science) so don&#039;t ask me to explain it or justify the claim.&nbsp; I&#039;m just saying that you may be overestimating the effects of the official inflation number.</p><p><br /></p><p>You know, the way I view my hobby of collecting coins is that my cost of acquisition minus my value at time to sell is the rental cost of the asset.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus, I am paying an annualized rent to indulge my hobby.&nbsp; I could do an Excel spreadsheet with annualized cost of capital, inflation, discount rates and etc. to come up with a yearly or even monthly cost of my hobby.&nbsp; But my un-official and strictly qualitative judgement is that I get more enjoyment value than I pay in &quot;coin rent&quot; and opportunity cost.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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