[tedmcory77]

These are lies; they keep changing the basket of goods to not reflect the reality of what's included. FTFA: "Excluding food and energy"

[WalterBright]

Recently, bell peppers at the store went from $.99 to $1.29. That's 30% inflation.

The WSJ also wrote about how the government inflation figures understate inflation, because of things like:

1. shrinkflation - the container has less food in it for the same price

2. unbundling - the extras become extra cost items (a big example of this is luggage fees being separate from the ticket price)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shrinkflation-is-in-the-air-onl...

Inflation is significantly higher than the government figures.

[zeroonetwothree]

This is false, they actually do take it into account. It’s a pretty obvious thing to do after all, it’s not like the CPI is calculated by morons.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-12/measuring-shrinkflati...

[robertoandred]

No, that's your store charging more for bell peppers.

[sp332]

I know it's unhelpful, but it's not new. "Core" inflation leaves those out because they change too rapidly to be useful as trend indicators.

[zeroonetwothree]

The top line CPI that gets reported usually isn’t the core one anyway. Generally core is preferred by the Fed so they can make long term money supply decisions without worrying about short term volatility. No one is saying that core reflects what consumers experience.

[ketchupdebugger]

according to https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ For the past 12 months, energy actually was negative. While food at home rose 1.3%. These wouldn't contribute significantly to the overall numbers

[WalterBright]

My electric bill says otherwise.