You could say that, but then you have to explain why all my commodity investments seem so terrible. This is mostly a joke, as I don't trade commodities; howeve

You could say that, but then you have to explain why all my commodity investments seem so terrible. This is mostly a joke, as I don't trade commodities; however, if BLS is juking the stats year over year with some agenda or other, basic inputs should have a steeper nominal trend line than they do, noisy as it is.