The quality of CPI data continues to deteriorate

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warkdarrior · 2h ago

If the government does not collect price data, there are no inflation numbers to compute. So inflation "disappears."

UncleEntity · 2h ago

A much more skeptical person than myself might think this is to deliberately hide the effects of some random thing like, IDK, tariffs on consumer prices -- to use a completely made up example for purely speculative purposes.

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The quality of CPI data continues to deteriorate

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