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Trump refuses to share pre-holiday inflation report — first skipped month in 12 years
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I mean inflation itself as a formula has been constantly tinkered with to make it look nicer, excluding extreme changes (unless they beneficially contribute to under-representing the actual inflation).
For example, inflation was supposed to be on average 4-5% YoY for the past ~5 years here in the UK, yet somehow everything that matters - food, bills, rent, etc. - went up by 50-70% if not more in that period.
I mean 5% inflation is a pretty high rate. At 5% YoY you'd have prices up ~30% in 5 years.
If that rate is uneven (lower/higher across different segments of the purchasing basket) you could get towards 50% inflation in some areas.
I said average - and that average was offset by the fact that during COVID (which does fall into the "past 5 years" period), inflation was pretty high "on paper" at 12% (at the time it felt much closer to 30-40%).
Recent years had "okay" inflation of 2-4%.
Oh yeah, I understand. I was just pointing out that compounding interest (even just on a yearly basis) adds up quick.