▲ 116 ▼ The economy remains a top concern for US voters ahead of the presidential election (www.scrippsnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Anyway, CPI includes both food and fuel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) I didn’t actually know that, thank you. Yeah, I know there is some commonly cited “inflation” number that excludes some volatile categories but over the last couple years that actually doesn’t change the bottom line - but yeah, it makes sense that CPI would include all the common consumer goods regardless of volatility. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) "Core inflation", as the name suggests, excludes some things that are encompassed by CPI. But I think it's cited much less often than CPI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 2 years ago* Honestly I have to admit I’ve become a little bit jaded with hundreds of times looking some particular claim up and learning about things and finding that someone who was swearing some particular thing, was lying; and I’ve gotten lazy about it as a result It’s almost as if all the “Biden ruined the economy” trolls are consistently not being 100% truthful and straightforward about things permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) I didn’t actually know that, thank you. Yeah, I know there is some commonly cited “inflation” number that excludes some volatile categories but over the last couple years that actually doesn’t change the bottom line - but yeah, it makes sense that CPI would include all the common consumer goods regardless of volatility. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) "Core inflation", as the name suggests, excludes some things that are encompassed by CPI. But I think it's cited much less often than CPI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 2 years ago* Honestly I have to admit I’ve become a little bit jaded with hundreds of times looking some particular claim up and learning about things and finding that someone who was swearing some particular thing, was lying; and I’ve gotten lazy about it as a result It’s almost as if all the “Biden ruined the economy” trolls are consistently not being 100% truthful and straightforward about things permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) "Core inflation", as the name suggests, excludes some things that are encompassed by CPI. But I think it's cited much less often than CPI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 2 years ago* Honestly I have to admit I’ve become a little bit jaded with hundreds of times looking some particular claim up and learning about things and finding that someone who was swearing some particular thing, was lying; and I’ve gotten lazy about it as a result It’s almost as if all the “Biden ruined the economy” trolls are consistently not being 100% truthful and straightforward about things permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 2 years ago* Honestly I have to admit I’ve become a little bit jaded with hundreds of times looking some particular claim up and learning about things and finding that someone who was swearing some particular thing, was lying; and I’ve gotten lazy about it as a result It’s almost as if all the “Biden ruined the economy” trolls are consistently not being 100% truthful and straightforward about things permalink fedilink source parent