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Remember that quarter-century period that recently ended, when new auto prices DIDN'T GO UP AT ALL (if you believed the @BLS_gov)? That was what went into the CPI, and almost nobody questioned it. Good times. (twitter.com)

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– Unknownsailor 7 points 42 days ago +7 / -0

the official CPI figure is used to for a lot of things, like, say, setting how much Social Security benefits goes up YOY, or retirement pay for military retirees. If CPI is low, so is the annual raise.

CPI has been fucked with since 1980, and is the entire reason ShadowStats exists as a web site.

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