[JeffAtlanta]

Current inflation is 4.5%, not 1.5% according to CPI. Surely you think we should include other items besides food and shelter? Most definitely. I was not the one that asserted that inflation is currently 1.5%, that was cake_crumb. The CPI numbers have been cooked since the early 1990s. That is how energy prices have gone through the roof the last few years but CPI has barely budged.

[cake_crumb]

I asserted no such thing. You’re getting me confused with someone else.

[rb22982]

CPI #s haven’t been really cooked unless energy cost are like 20%-30% of your budget and food is another 20% (It’s 8% and 5% for me respectively). CPI has gone up close to 3% every year for the last few years and “core” cpi without food/energy is about 2%. Besides if you used the old CPI #s, the 90s would have shown significant deflation as food & energy prices dropped significantly from 1990 to 2000 and we’d be basically just catching up. If you live in a huge city that saw housing prices soar, you probably think inflation is a lot worse than it really is. Most of the country did not see double digit increases every year for the last 10 years.