John Talbott has extreme views, for sure. I e-mailed him, and we conversed a couple times. I disagree with his take on inflation. He believes the CPI figures are accurate, and I don’t. He believes inflation has been burned out of the system, and many of his assumptions are made on that premise. He did not respond to my last e-mail in which I argued why inflation is higher than the 2% government reported figure. Maybe he thought I was right and was speechless, maybe he thought I was clueless and didn’t want to waste his time with me, who knows?