You’ll find few people willing to admit that the current real inflation rate is around 16%, but give it 6 months and there’ll be no more doubters. The government’s statistics have been politically manipulated bullcrap for so long that they are completely unreliable measurements.
It started under the Klintoons. Manipulation of economic data for “the common good”. This whole no nonsense is akin to going on a drunken binge and finding out the tab is due after buying the house a round or two.