Last updated September 19, 2026

Editorial Policy

Inflation Money publishes explainers and calculators built on official statistics. This policy describes what we publish, how we source it, how estimates are labelled and how readers get errors fixed.

What we publish

The site publishes money clocks, calculators, historical data pages and plain-English guides about inflation, government debt, money supply and purchasing power. It does not publish breaking news, market commentary or predictions. Pages are written to stay useful for years and are updated as the underlying data changes.

Sourcing standard

Official statistics come first. Consumer prices come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national debt from the U.S. Treasury, money supply and national accounts from the Federal Reserve and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and commodity prices from the World Bank, most of them retrieved through FRED. Bitcoin prices come from CoinGecko. Each figure names its source and the date of the observation it rests on, and the methodology page links to every series used. Where a guide draws on a secondary source, it is cited with a link.

How estimates are labelled

When a figure is derived rather than reported, it is labelled as an estimate. That includes per-household and per-taxpayer figures, which divide an official total by an estimated population base, and clock values that project forward from the last observation. A projection is never presented as an official reading.

No personalised advice

Nothing on the site is financial, legal, tax or investment advice for any individual. The calculators show historical arithmetic; they do not recommend what to do with money.

Review and updates

The editorial team reviews each page when its data sources refresh and when a reader reports a problem. Each policy page shows the date it was last updated. Data snapshots are regenerated by a scheduled job, so the "as of" dates on the clocks change independently of the page text.

Reporting errors

Email [email protected] with the page URL, the figure in question and, where possible, a link to the source you believe is correct. The corrections policy describes what happens next.