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Re:Questions by andrewmutz on Sunday September 30, 2018 @10:48AM (#18106375)
Do you have any evidence that “we are lying about inflation”?

Unless you do, I think it those industries are getting more expensive due to Baumol’s Cost Disease:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

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Re:Questions by 0x445442 on Sunday September 30, 2018 @10:56AM (#18106417)
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
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Re:Questions by VHRanger on Sunday September 30, 2018 @10:37PM (#18109647)
ShadowStats inflation is literally the CPI minus a constant. The guy making is completely laughing at you -- he doesn't have a methodology to calculate the inflation, he's just publishing numbers people want to hear.
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