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Re:Stocks are rolling over, Dow falls 1,500 points by dragonwriter on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:47PM (#16312529)
> Inflation is higher than 2.885%

Official BLS has had it at a 2.0% annual rate for the first half of 2017 and a 1.7% for the second; some citation would be welcome on the claim that it's jumped to something above a 2.885% annual rate since...

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Re:Stocks are rolling over, Dow falls 1,500 points by freejulian on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:49PM (#16312551)
Sorry, inflation in the price of things people actually want to buy. The government has every incentive to lie about real inflation.
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Re:Stocks are rolling over, Dow falls 1,500 points by dragonwriter on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:52PM (#16312568)
> Sorry, inflation in the price of things people actually want to buy

And still, actual evidence that the rate of inflation “in the price of things people want to buy” is 2.885% or higher is missing.

Trying to blur the topic is not a substitute for supporting your fact claims.

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Re:Stocks are rolling over, Dow falls 1,500 points by freejulian on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:11PM (#16312709)
Missing? Basic shelter needs increase in price roughly 8% per year.
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Re:Stocks are rolling over, Dow falls 1,500 points by dragonwriter on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:33PM (#16312861)
> Basic shelter needs increase in price roughly 8% per year.

Again, source?

Housing (urban, at least) has less than 1% quarterly inflation recently:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SAH?output_view=pct_...

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