Red Mosquito

if you're trying to figure out the real number, remember that congress gave themselves a 21% raise last month

How long before the price controls hit?

4/5 wrote:How long before the price controls hit?

Only 1 gallon of milk per person!

verb_to_trust wrote:

4/5 wrote:How long before the price controls hit?

Only 1 Fallon of milk per person!

This is a unit of measurement we can all get behind.

Lol

gave NPR a listen, and hearing "inflation has hit record highs in the wake of russia's invasion and the resulting sanctions" is just such insidious propaganda, less because of the content and more because of its breeziness, its ease. it just floats along, effortlessly priming the cattle to accept the state of affairs as such

sometimes i wonder why bernays ever decided to pull back the curtain on the consensus-molding machine

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That's better than the "corporate greed" explanation at least.

I read today that in the early 80s they took mortgage and rent increases out of the figure to make inflation look lower. Is that true? Or did I read it wrong?

elliseamos wrote:I read today that in the early 80s they took mortgage and rent increases out of the figure to make inflation look lower. Is that true? Or did I read it wrong?

I think some food prices aren't included either.

elliseamos wrote:I read today that in the early 80s they took mortgage and rent increases out of the figure to make inflation look lower. Is that true? Or did I read it wrong?

in 1983 the BLS shifted the way it calculated the housing portion of the CPI, from nominal housing prices to "owner's equivalent rent"

stats are juking

i don't know why i can't get this tweet to post correctly

https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/statu ... r7vIIqAAAA

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RMers are aging

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

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RMers are aging

maybe they should control for female promiscuity in multi-unit residential dwellings

Now that’s the kind of oblique reference to obscure RM lore I was hoping for with the return of thodoks

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what will become of this economy's bunny colvin?

washing machine wrote:

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what will become of this economy's bunny colvin?

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elliseamos wrote:I read today that in the early 80s they took mortgage and rent increases out of the figure to make inflation look lower. Is that true? Or did I read it wrong?

in 1983 the BLS shifted the way it calculated the housing portion of the CPI, from nominal housing prices to "owner's equivalent rent"

So it was already heading down and then the equation was changed? Or the changed caused that sudden drop?