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by lotsofpulp 2402 days ago
I don’t think the US government would use something that obvious to fool people.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/05/can-shrinki...

The problem with US CPI is that the nation isn’t moving in the same direction as a whole, with some places and populations making gains far greater than others. It’s impossible to capture this one metric.