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Re:Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth? by skybrian on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:06PM (#18311519)
Inflation is an average. Newspapers usually report the national average, but there are a lot of other averages and they aren't being kept secret. This page has data for California:

http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Economics/Indicators/Infla...

I don't think anyone is all that interested in a bunch of dry statistics. No conspiracy is needed.

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Re:Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth? by Gibbon1 on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:22PM (#18312801)
The problem is while other statistics exist in practice policy makers, political leaders, businessmen, and economists in general have come ignore them. Rather than believing some small brained primate on the internet, here is Paul Volcker saying the same thing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-24/what-s...

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