• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    5 months ago

    I didn’t actually know that, thank you. Yeah, I know there is some commonly cited “inflation” number that excludes some volatile categories but over the last couple years that actually doesn’t change the bottom line - but yeah, it makes sense that CPI would include all the common consumer goods regardless of volatility.

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      5 months ago

      “Core inflation”, as the name suggests, excludes some things that are encompassed by CPI. But I think it’s cited much less often than CPI.

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        Honestly I have to admit I’ve become a little bit jaded with hundreds of times looking some particular claim up and learning about things and finding that someone who was swearing some particular thing, was lying; and I’ve gotten lazy about it as a result

        It’s almost as if all the “Biden ruined the economy” trolls are consistently not being 100% truthful and straightforward about things