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Inflation Data Point

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Since the prices for Slope premium memberships haven’t budged in forever, I thought I’d share with you an email I just got from one of the few items to which I subscribe: RoboKiller, which suppresses junk phone calls. In spite of the government’s laughable declaration that inflation is 3% (instead of the truth, which is about ten times higher) here we have a real-life example in which a very popular product is going up by 166% in one year. I will, incidentally, be cancelling this, because this is ridiculous.