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To: lee martell

It’s called inflation… all grocery prices have gone up drastically. The government refuses to acknowledge this


79 posted on 12/21/2013 8:16:03 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Nifster

It’s called inflation… all grocery prices have gone up drastically. The government refuses to acknowledge this...

I think it was about 2005 that they stopped including the prices of housing, energy, and food in the calculations of the inflation numbers, because, they said, those particular prices were “too volatile”. I think those items are still excluded.


104 posted on 12/21/2013 9:36:08 PM PST by Hepsabeth
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