HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
No. Did they actually exclude those sectors?????
Heck. Why did they stop there? Surely they could look at any sector that has an inflation rate over, say, -2% and exclude those as well?
Then they could trumpet even more economic success for the megaphones of truth, such as WSJ, NYT, WAPO, and, of course, The Hill.
And there are people, lots of them, who would believe it.
What an Effing Joke.
I dont remember when, but it was many years ago that those volatile sectors were pulled out. If you force me to guess I’d say it was under Bush II. So it’s been government policy for a very long time that these stats should actually not be informative