The first part is false. Americans on average have never spent a smaller portion of their household income on food than now. We (not you specifically) have had this argument, and left off at acknowledging that the average hides the difference between rich and poor food spending, i.e. the effect of income inequality. Fair enough, but the poor get a food subsidy, and the rich don't eat more, they eat better.
It's OK... TT doesn't wanna listen to me on account of me being a Fed apologist and all. There's no point having these discussions with someone who is unwilling to listen to you, because they perceive a bias (real or imagined).
Feel free to answer Lucrum if you like. For me, as you said, there's no point in listening to you try to put down Shadowstats, as we went through this once before on the topic of Santelli. On that thread, Maverick and I listened to pitifully lame excuses why Santelli "was not correct" in your eyes, as you called out how he traded in the past, and a whole host of other irrelevant random things to the conversation in an attempt to discredit the man. And yet neither Mav nor I could pin you down to answer what, exactly, Santelli was wrong about. I have to make the assumption this would go down a similar road, and would be similarly worthless as you are not really trying to press truth as much as talking points, amico.
If I recall our conversation about Santelli, it was never about what Rick got "wrong". It was about why I disagreed w/Santelli and why I didn't like him as a "talking head" on CNBC. At the end of that conversation, this was what you told me: So I am rather unhappy and disappointed that you're now saying that "you couldn't pin me down".
The Administration's/BLS "official" unemployment rate keeps falling... but the percentage of "Americans holding a job" keeps falling also. Disconnect there?? Somebody "doing it wrong"?