This is basic statistics. When certain data points skew things too much you just remove them!
Who needs energy or shelter anyways.
Also what is this even supposed to tell you about? That candles and fighter jets didn’t get more expensive?
If you exclude the things that makes living expensive, living isn’t more expensive is a great point, good job Paul.
Inflation can be defeated on shelter and food completely by simply sleeping in a Walmart parking lot and foraging for food out of dumpsters. I am very smart.
This reminds me of that sports copypasta/meme; “If you take [star athlete] and ignore the top twenty percent of their performances as outliers and then do a regression analysis, you’ll see they’re actually an average athlete for their position.”
Core price inflation. CORE PRICE INFLATION. CPI. CORE. PRICE. INFLATION. (excluding such outliers as fucking food)
I hate these people I hate them so much how can you be such a huge dork and wrong literally all of the god damn time and be so evil I hate them I hate them I am going insane where does he live what is his address and favorite restaurant and preferred route to and from work I am going to look like a fucking liberal