CPI

Government Lies (and Statistics)

The government is lying to us. I know this isn’t exactly news, because they lie to us all the time. But in this case, I’m talking about inflation. According to the most recent “official” government announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on September 14, “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent in August on a seasonally...

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