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popsdenver

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3. The Consumer Price Index
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 03:06 PM
14 hrs ago

is an absolutely joke & travesty.....

During Reagan's time in office, they started completely changing the items that they would use to compile the CPI
Inflation was running at 12-16%,????? and they needed to get that figure down. So they merely adjusted which items would be included in the CPI measurement..........I am sure they are continuing to do the same esp these past eleven years.............

MASSIVE Inflation in: Medical costs, Medical Insurance, Prescription Drugs, Gasoline, electricity, natural gas, propane gas, Auto prices and auto insurance, home owners insurance, property taxes, housing costs, increases in prices of everything, due to Trump's Tariff's,
The list is endless, and telling the public that we are at a CPI of 4% hysterically ludicrous, and must not contain ANY of the above.......

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