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Things like the basket of goods changing doesn't happen very often. It's not like they go through each year and say, we'll include this and this and this but not that or that - then change it next year. It's just doesn't work that way. You guys are blowing this stuff up WAAAY out of proportion.Exactly. If the gov't wants a number, like the CPI to go down, then it goes down. Since most people must still spend their money on gasoline (for work, doctor visits or shopping), even more of it lately, that makes the official gov't version of reality far different from actual reality.
I'm not even going to bother with your U-3 comparison. It's been that way forever. If you want to compare something else then you can do so. The information is available, all you have to do is make a few clicks to get it. If that's too much work then it wasn't very important to you anyway.
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