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If the government does not collect price data, there are no inflation numbers to compute. So inflation "disappears."
by warkdarrior 1y ago
If the government does not collect price data, there are no inflation numbers to compute. So inflation "disappears."
- UncleEntity 1y agoA much more skeptical person than myself might think this is to deliberately hide the effects of some random thing like, IDK, tariffs on consumer prices -- to use a completely made up example for purely speculative purposes.
- AIPedant 1y agoI actually suspect this is a "happy accident" from Trump's POV: DOGE layoffs and other disruption means BLS can't collect enough data. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-bls-reductions https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-bls-reductio...