The quality of CPI data continues to deteriorate apolloacademy.com 13 points by bdev12345 12 hours ago
warkdarrior 10 hours ago If the government does not collect price data, there are no inflation numbers to compute. So inflation "disappears." UncleEntity 9 hours ago A much more skeptical person than myself might think this is to deliberately hide the effects of some random thing like, IDK, tariffs on consumer prices -- to use a completely made up example for purely speculative purposes. AIPedant 7 hours ago I actually suspect this is a "happy accident" from Trump's POV: DOGE layoffs and other disruption means BLS can't collect enough data. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-bls-reductio...
UncleEntity 9 hours ago A much more skeptical person than myself might think this is to deliberately hide the effects of some random thing like, IDK, tariffs on consumer prices -- to use a completely made up example for purely speculative purposes. AIPedant 7 hours ago I actually suspect this is a "happy accident" from Trump's POV: DOGE layoffs and other disruption means BLS can't collect enough data. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-bls-reductio...
AIPedant 7 hours ago I actually suspect this is a "happy accident" from Trump's POV: DOGE layoffs and other disruption means BLS can't collect enough data. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-bls-reductio...
If the government does not collect price data, there are no inflation numbers to compute. So inflation "disappears."
A much more skeptical person than myself might think this is to deliberately hide the effects of some random thing like, IDK, tariffs on consumer prices -- to use a completely made up example for purely speculative purposes.
I actually suspect this is a "happy accident" from Trump's POV: DOGE layoffs and other disruption means BLS can't collect enough data. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-bls-reductio...