(Kitco News) – The most important measure of inflation–the one against which investment decisions and monetary policies are benchmarked– is inaccurate, outdated and misleading by design, and the ratio between the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the gold price is the only reliable alternative, according to economist Vasilii Sapozhnikov at the Mises Institute.

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