The latest completely-made-up and watered-down inflation numbers came out, and they are, surprise, surprise, exactly as anticipated. We’ve become like China in that respect: a number is “supposed” to be certain level (let’s say: Real Inflation divided by 10) and then, oh mah garsh, the official number is the same.
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