throwbcuzgermanlaw t1_jegawhv wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:18 PM Reply to comment by DeludedRaven in ELI5:Why do we exclude the price of things like Food, Housing and Energy costs when looking at the total number for inflation? by DeludedRaven Yes but that makes it possible to appease people with lower sounding numbers(even tho they now don't really mean anything anymore) and that's something interesting to the ruling Permalink Parent −2−
throwbcuzgermanlaw t1_jegawhv wrote
Reply to comment by DeludedRaven in ELI5:Why do we exclude the price of things like Food, Housing and Energy costs when looking at the total number for inflation? by DeludedRaven
Yes but that makes it possible to appease people with lower sounding numbers(even tho they now don't really mean anything anymore) and that's something interesting to the ruling