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Washington’s Biggest Lie (and Why it Continues to be Told)

Posted on December 5, 2012 by DRenegade

Chart courtesy of Shadow Statistics. The chart above compares the official CPI-U to the pre-1980 methodology for computing the CPI-U. It shows that without the government’s manipulation of the methodology for computing the CPI, current inflation would be nearly 10%. Today’s headline … Continue reading →

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