So, basically, your argument is you ignore reality and substitute your own. The Gold Standard pegged the cost of one good [gold] to the price of the USD. It didn't magically make inflation disappear.

RE: Bretton Woods

Fixing the exchange rate doesn't magically make inflation disappear is a fact.

The value of gold [relative to other goods] did vary overtime.

Here you can see it in Oil:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=F0...

1940's	1.02	1.14	1.19	1.20	1.21	1.22	1.41	1.93	2.60	2.54

1950's	2.51	2.53	2.53	2.68	2.78	2.77	2.79	3.09	3.01	2.90

1960's	2.88	2.89	2.90	2.89	2.88	2.86	2.88	2.92	2.94	3.09

Under Bretton Woods, it roughly tripled. If inflation does not exist on the gold standard and technology/economic efficiency of production always improves, how does this happen?

Perhaps Cattle?

http://nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Washington/Historic...

1944 - 10.60

1970 - 27.00

Or are you going to claim everything just magically gets more expensive over time due to "market forces"?

Hint: If you do, that is inflation.

RE: The CPI

A) The changes you complain about are all post 1980s. So, your complaint about changes in methodology aren't relevant since they don't affect the previous measurements.

B) Even if they were relevant, I can cherry pick data to BS my way to my proof if I really wanted but let us just show exactly how much reality you have to ignore to believe Schiff:
"From 1970 to 1980, the CPI rose 112% according to official statistics. During the same time period, the price of Schiff’s basket of 20 goods rose 117%. This leads to a difference of just 5% points."

Try paying 95% of your bills and see how that works out for you. You can't just make economic measurements up out of whole cloth and ignore entire industries.

"To prove there are problems with the official CPI, Schiff calculated the price changes of a basket of 20 goods that consist of common household purchases. Schiff’s CPI basket of 20 goods included: eggs, new cars, milk, gasoline, bread, rent for a primary residence, coffee, dental services, potatoes, electricity, sugar, airline tickets, butter, store-purchased beer, apples, public transportation, cereal, tires, beef, and prescription drugs."

Things in the CPI ( http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm ) that he ignores:

1) People who purchase homes, which is the majority. 60+% of people own rather than rent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-29/u-s-homeownership-r...

So we throw out 60% of housing data [31% of the total basket] because he says so? That is sheer stupidity.

2) We ignore fuel oil and the price of the gas you buy from the utility like he does? No, we don't.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=49&t=8

Once again, he ignores 60% of households with his basket. That is 32% of the CPI basket he ignores now.

3) Medical services? Everyone needs those, he ignores those. That is another 5.8% of the CPI measure he ignores and pretends doesn't exist with his made up bullshit. That is 37.8% of normal household expenditures he now ignores.

4) He ignores CLOTHING for fuck's sake. That brings us up to 40.1% of the CPI basket he ignores. You are apparently naked.

5) He ignores the difference between eating out vs. eating in. We are up to 45.8%. No one ever eats out. Ever. Clearly, this is true. You've never eaten in a restaurant.

6) He ignores Tobacco (included in the CPI). This puts up to about 46.5% of real world purchases by households you are ignoring.

So just to reiterate in Schiff (and your) reality:

1) You are naked.

2) You do not eat out.

3) You do not use the gas utilities.

4) You do not change the oil in your car.

5) You do not own a home.

6) You never utilize a physician or hospital.

7) You don't use tobacco.

I don't know how you can take Schiff seriously if you do any of those 7 things. Given you aren't posting this from jail for public indecency ... I'm assuming you have to admit you wear clothes.

Some other people bitching about the complete ignorance of reality:

http://www.etvita.com/2013/04/peter-schiff-is-wrong-about-ev...

http://theweek.com/article/index/258502/no-the-government-is...