(January 20, 2026 at 10:47 am)pocaracas Wrote:(January 15, 2026 at 3:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ve never understood the reasoning behind excluding food and energy from inflation. These are things everybody uses.
Boru
Subsidies skew their value.
Most things are subsidized. But even if they weren’t, excluding food and energy costs from inflation figures skews that value. It’s like when a former US president (I disremember which one) decided to count military personnel as ‘employed’ to make that figure look better.
Boru
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