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Inflation metrics are gamed, it no longer includes major categories.

• criddell 3y ago
  There are a lot of price indexes that all include different things. Have there been changes to what goes into particular indices?
• gruez 3y ago
  It does though. Which "major categories" are you talking about?
• xnx 3y ago
  Even inflation "truthers" truflation.com had to stop showing their chart of "true" inflation because it had dropped so much. Prices now are higher than they were 3 years ago, but continued inflation is not currently a problem.
• mrguyorama 3y ago
  Ain't it funny how the raw potatoes dug out of the ground are just as cheap as they were 5 years ago here in my state, while potato chips have doubled in price? Even the supermarket brand chips are still only a couple dollars. That sound like "Inflation" to you? Steak is still $8/lb but my sugar free soda is suddenly twice as expensive