Cumulative inflation, using official CPI figures, is 22% since 2020. Check it yourself on the BLS.gov website here: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost

Cumulative inflation, using official CPI figures, is 22% since 2020. Check it yourself on the BLS.gov website here: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=202001&year2=202409 https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=202001... A figure of 25% using an alternate methodology is not at all unreasonable.