Inflation rates tend to be calculated from the average on many different things. So it can be tricky to understand how much it's really affecting. Imagine it li

Inflation rates tend to be calculated from the average on many different things. So it can be tricky to understand how much it's really affecting. Imagine it like this: if it only was measuring for the prices of potatoes and gas, and potatoes went up by 2.5% and gas did the same by 7.5%, then the inflation would be like 5% but it's not clear Source: In my country, the government forces some product prices to be limited so they can trick us in to believing that the problem is smaller than it actually is