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minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 days agoThe official inflation rate doesn’t include food or energy. It’s ridiculous.
minus-squareSemperverus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 days agoFood and products have 2.3x’d since just before covid started.
minus-squareexasperation@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoIt does include food and energy, but they also separately report a “core” inflation that excludes those items because food and energy tend to go up and down.
minus-squarealbert180@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoThe most funny thing was the “I can’t eat an iPad” reply, when someone from the Fed tried to explain these mental gymnastics https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704893604576199113452719274
The official inflation rate doesn’t include food or energy. It’s ridiculous.
Food and products have 2.3x’d since just before covid started.
It does include food and energy, but they also separately report a “core” inflation that excludes those items because food and energy tend to go up and down.
Or up and less up
The most funny thing was the “I can’t eat an iPad” reply, when someone from the Fed tried to explain these mental gymnastics
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704893604576199113452719274