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0 pointsprepend3y ago0 comments

Well also because there are other factors that are high. Inflation is a basket of many goods. Just because lumber is up or down doesn’t mean inflation, overall, must be up or down.

It’s not a conspiracy in this case or an official narrative. Inflation is high so reporters try to find examples. Instead of lumber, they now talk about groceries or whatever.

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midasuni3y ago

We know inflation is high. The conspiracy theorists are the ones who say it’s higher (20,30% etc) because their commodity of choice is up that much.

Last year that commodity was lumber. A couple of months ago it was oil.

It’s quite possible, likely even, that your personal inflation doesn’t match the official inflation, because you don’t have the same basket of goods. By all means if you want to present an alternate inflation with different weighting that’s fine, preferably show what the same weighting’s were over the last 20 years though and be transparent about the weightings like official ones

Or do a YouTube video showing different amounts of lumber and yell about how the lame stream media is lying to you.

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