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       "Things are great and anyone who isn't doing great is
       really just jealous of other peoples success and a drug addict
       .. 
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 10, 2022, 1:03 pm
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       August 10, 2022
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       />AGelbert NOTE: The following comments (I replaced the handles
       with emojies) were posted today in response to a Stock Market
       news article explaining the cause  of the "positive" (i.e. buy,
       buy, buy) reaction of the "markets" to the "less than expected"
       CPI print of 8.9%. The comments, unlike the BLS CPI print of
       8.9%, are reality based. but they fail to point out the real
       reason the markets went up today. After the comments, I will
       state what I am certain caused today's buying spree.
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       > &#129318;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039;
       > 8.5% is still an ugly number. A fake, ugly number at that.
       > always assume 10% downside to anything produced by fedgov/CIA
       mouthpieces/MSM polls
       >
       > &#128545;
       > Fake..
       > Everything is Fake
       > one BIG Ugly out of control Clusterf#ck Dumpster Fire!
       >
       > &#129402;
       > Lots of lipstick on that pig.
       >
       > &#128580;
       > There is not quite as much arterial bleeding pumping and
       spraying out of the victim as last month!
       >
       > &#127913;
       > We're gonna need a bigger IV and larger blood bags. I hope
       donations don't slow down.
       >
       > &#128226;
       > after  the
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       household reported  against  the  BLS  release..  No one  I mean
       no one believes  these liars..
       >
       > &#128266;
       > And also remember that any government report citing
       inflation/pricing is BS!
       >
       > &#128169;
       > At this rate of inflation, your money is only halved in 11.8
       years.
       > Enjoy...
       >
       > &#128579;
       > Key words…”at this rate” because we all know the numbers are
       probably double what they are saying they are so you can cut
       that 11.8 to 5 years I’m guessing….
       >
       >
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       />No no no. Everything is made as opaque as possible and
       information is only available to a few who we trust to give us
       the whole story because everything is awesome. Things are great
       and anyone who isn't doing great is really just jealous of other
       peoples success and a drug addict and dumb and a liberal or a
       conservative and lazy and entitled and and and and. This was the
       story for many years while all of this was unfolding and now
       that it is impossible to ignore, everyone is still jealous , a
       drug addict, etc. But now that the people who labeled everyone
       who wasn't doing so well all those things aren't doing so well
       themselves. They are singing the same song all of those lazy,
       entitled, dumb people were singing decades before. It's really
       funny the cognitive dissonance most people have.
       >
       > &#128059;
       > We'll see if the have that smug smirk on their mug standing in
       a gov bread line in January.
       > It's coming...
       >
       > &#128062;
       > Roger that.
       >
       >
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       > Compounding lies with more lies will only help the Fed to do
       the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time!
       > You are led by morons who think they are gods shaping reality.
       > arrow
       >
       >
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       > Hubristic losers, the lot of 'em.
       >
       > &#129335;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039;
       > While I agree they are lying through their teeth, being
       incrementally more hawkish than they have been and raising rates
       (with QT) is the right thing to do when inflation is higher than
       the Fed funds rate. That doesn't excuse them from holding rates
       way too low for way too long, and it won't stop the reckoning
       still to come in the housing and financial markets.
       >
       >
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       > Zimbabwe, here we come !
       > More manipulated numbers from government agencies.
       > I can see it now.
       >
       > Gov't Economist: "What number should I put in the CPI report,
       Director? 6.3%?"
       > Susan Rice: "Nah, they will never believe that it went down
       that much."
       > Gov't Economist: "What about 7.8%?"
       > Susan Rice: "Problem is the seven. It screams made up."
       > Gov't Economist: "Well, it kind of is..."
       >
       > Susan Rice: "Put in 8.5%. It's not too far off 9.1% but we
       made that one up anyway, so it doesn't matter."
       > Gov't Economist: "That sounds pretty good."
       >
       > Susan Rice, Director of the White House Economic Council,
       chuckles and smiles.
       --- End Quote ---
       Source:
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       />The real reason the "markets" (i.e. stocks owned by MOSTLY the
       1%) went "up" (i.e. buying spree BY the 1%) is because of the
       TWO GIANT GIVEAWAYS just passed by Congress (i.e. chip
       manufacturer 70 billion plus dollar swag AND the &#129429;
       Manchin "Climate" bill that MOSTLY provides MORE subsidy SWAG
       for the &#129430; hydrocarbon hellspawn, while providing a
       pittance for clean energy). There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in these
       pork barrel giveaways for we-the-people not in the 1%. Let me
       repeat that: NOTHING! There is NO repeal of the 2017 Trump
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       />massive tax baked in permanent REDUCTIONS to upper class taxes
       along with INCREASED Taxes baked in for the middle class and
       lower income brackets (see below).
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       />There is ALSO NO CHANGE to THESE 2017 &#129402; Federal Budget
       PROJECTIONS:[/center]
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       />There is NO actual "subsidy" for buying an EV unless you
       consider a $7,500 (that's the max, rarely available) rebate on a
       $60,000 PLUS vehicle a "benefit for the middle class". I
       CERTAINLY DON'T.
       Senator Sanders voted for this Bill. I think he should
       definitely NOT have done it, but my opinion carries no weight in
       Congress. At any rate, he did make clear (some, but certainly
       not all, of) what is wrong with the Bill, though you will never
       hear it from the US Corporate Media.
       August 10, 2022 3:21 PM "Bernie Buzz" e-mail:
       The Good
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       />and the [b]Bad of the Inflation Reduction
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       />Act[/b]
       SNIPPET:
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       > As you may know, a reconciliation bill is one of the few
       opportunities we have in the Senate to pass major legislation
       with 50 votes, not the usual 60. It is unfortunate, therefore,
       that not one of the 50 Republicans in the Senate was prepared to
       come forward and support a bill which would have addressed the
       many serious problems facing struggling working families. That
       meant that we needed all 50 Democrats in the Senate to stand
       together if we were going to address the major crises facing our
       country.
       >
       > That's not what happened. Two corporate Democrats, both of
       whom receive huge amounts of campaign contributions from
       powerful special interests, prevented that from happening.
       >
       > The result is that this bill does nothing to reform our
       dysfunctional, wasteful and cruel health care system. It does
       nothing to address the massive levels of income and wealth
       inequality and concentration of ownership that we are currently
       experiencing. It does nothing to raise the starvation minimum
       wage or make it easier for workers to join unions. It does
       nothing to build the millions of units of affordable housing we
       need. It does nothing to address the crisis of childhood poverty
       and a totally inadequate childcare system. It does nothing to
       address the home health care crisis facing our seniors and
       people with disabilities. It does nothing to expand Medicare to
       cover dental, hearing, and vision care. It does nothing to make
       it easier for young Americans to get a higher education, or pay
       off their student debt. It does nothing to move us forward
       toward immigration reform or voting rights reform.
       --- End Quote ---
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       />The bottom line is that the US Congress just made a POINT of
       proving they are THERE for the 1% and they will continue to be
       THERE to guarantee the Capitalist SHAFT for the rest of us. And
       THAT
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       />is why Wall Street is so &#128520; pleased today. Have a nice
       day.
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       #Post#: 444--------------------------------------------------
       The flawed assumptions about WHY poverty exists, WHY wealth
       exists and WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP between the two 
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 13, 2022, 2:48 pm
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       Agelbert NOTE: Over the centuries, as the leaders in human
       civilization increasingly pursued privilege over principle, this
       rampant increase in elite human iniquity resulted in massive,
       unjust and totally unnecessary human inequity.
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       I present this March 12, 2015 article to readers in order to
       educate them on how we have been propagandized to believe
       Capitalism is "good" because it "creates wealth". This flawed
       world view is analyzed and exposed as folly. The key is the
       flawed assumptions about WHY poverty exists, WHY wealth exists
       and WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP between the two IS.
       SNIPPET:
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       > We noted this in the article we published here a few weeks
       ago, "4 Things You Probably Know About Poverty that Bill and
       Melinda Gates Don’t," and it rubbed many people the wrong way.
       It’s understandable that this feels counterintuitive at first
       because it seems to defy basic logic. Wealth is something, and
       poverty is nothing. Wealth is the outcome of action, so it must
       follow that poverty is what exists before or in the absence of
       action. In other words, poverty must be a default state. Right?
       >
       > The problem with this intuitive theory of poverty is that it
       ignores context—from the quality of education, to race and
       gender privilege, to physical and mental health, to luck and
       coincidence and much more. Even more important than all that,
       though, is the fact that it pretends that what happened
       yesterday has no bearing on today. When it comes to the global
       economic system and issues of mass poverty, the all-important
       yesterday is measured in decades and centuries. If we don’t
       understand this long view, we don’t really understand anything.
       >
       > Why is all this so important? Because it is impossible to
       solve an entrenched problem like mass poverty without
       understanding how it came into being. There’s every reason to
       believe we can overcome poverty, if we take the time to
       understand and learn the lessons from how it is created.
       >
       > [size=12pt]
       > Poverty isn't just a fact of nature. We made it happen, and we
       can fix it.
       >
       > Here are just three ways mass poverty has been created:
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       &#128226; Comment of the YEAR
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 18, 2022, 1:04 pm
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       > The FED is in a tug of war - throw the rich or the poor under
       the bus.
       >
       > If they continue aggressively to raise the rates, they throw
       the rich under the bus with lower asset values across the board.
       >
       > If they chicken out and they go too slow, they throw the poor
       and middle class under the bus because inflation is the most
       regressive form of taxation; also, they trash the value of the
       dollar (you can't maintain the most powerful military with a
       banana republic currency).
       --- End Quote ---
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       #Post#: 471--------------------------------------------------
       &quot;This week’s lesson in “How We Get Screwed Everywhere We
       Turn” ...&quot; 
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 26, 2022, 4:27 pm
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       August 26, 2022 BY William Rivers Pitt &#128509;, Truthout
       (graphics by AGelbert)
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       [center]Mitch McConnell’s Condemnation of Debt Relief Is
       Dripping With Hypocrisy[/center]
       SNIPPETS:
       Too many people from previous generations enjoyed privileges
       afforded by things like the G.I. bill and properly funded public
       schools, climbed to the top of the ladder, and then pulled the
       ladder up behind them.
       How? By voting for
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       />Republicans who hate public money and public schools, and why?
       To pay less taxes. It wasn’t Millennials or Gen Z who threw 74
       million votes at Donald Trump in 2020, but a whole lot of them
       did what was expected of them and got an expensive education on
       the promise of future opportunity, only to find that ladder
       missing and their grandparents waving at them from the
       now-unattainable economic high ground. ... ...
       Welcome to the
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       />world endured by millions of student debt holders. ... ...
       How do you get the smartest students in the country to work
       defending the rights and power of corporations? Bury them in
       debt and then lure them into six-figure careers — perhaps a
       partnership, or even a judge’s robe down the road — spent
       defending those corporations in court. So long as these students
       are shackled to debt, torrents of them will be available to make
       sure &#129430; oil companies will never know a reckoning for,
       say, turning the Gulf of Mexico into a &#9760;&#65039; death
       zone. This frees up money for the corporations to &#128520; buy
       politicians who bring things like
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       />United to life, and the wheel goes round. ... ...
       You’d like to think the Republicans in high dudgeon ::) over
       debt relief are trying to make a point without the usual dollop
       of hypocrisy on the side — you go into debt, you pay your debt —
       but you would be wrong to all points on the compass.
       &#128024; GOP Representatives &#128013; Vern Buchanan, &#128127;
       Marjorie Taylor Greene and &#128520; Mike Kelly got mouthy over
       the unfairness of it all. Which is kind of strange upon further
       analysis. During the height of the pandemic, each and every
       single one of them took advantage of the debt forgiveness
       available in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Greene had
       $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. Kelly had $987,237 in loans
       forgiven. Buchanan had more than $2.3 million :o in PPP loans
       forgiven, and is now calling Biden’s new policy “reckless.”
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       />... ...
       Full article:
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       #Post#: 476--------------------------------------------------
       &quot;The &#127913;&#128520; Fed says wages should go down to
       get &#128181; inflation under control. What if we just stopped
       corporate profiteer
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 31, 2022, 2:00 pm
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       The Real News Network
       AUGUST 30, 2022 BY MARC STEINER
       [center]&#128266; THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS WRONG: CORPORATIONS
       SHOULD PAY TO STOP INFLATION, NOT WORKERS
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       #Post#: 494--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Money
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 4, 2022, 2:58 pm
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       Reality Asserts itself at Wall Street. GOOD!
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 13, 2022, 8:24 pm
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       #Post#: 509--------------------------------------------------
       You Earned It, You Keep It Act (HR 8717)
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 15, 2022, 10:46 am
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       My Federal Retirement
       September 15, 2022
       [center]Proposed Bill Would Repeal Federal Taxes on Social
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       Representative Angie Craig &#128509; (D-MN)
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       />introduced last month legislation that would repeal federal
       taxes on Social Security benefits for retirees.
       If passed, the You Earned It, You Keep It Act (HR 8717)
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       />would repeal all of the federal taxation on Social Security
       retirement benefits beginning in 2023.
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       Craig claims the tax repeal would be fully paid by implementing
       an extension of the payroll tax wage cap to over $250,000 a
       year. Under current law, wages over $147,000 are exempt from the
       Social Security payroll tax.
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       “Social Security &#128509; is a promise we have made to the
       American people – if you work hard and play by the rules, the
       dignity of a secure retirement will be within your reach,” said
       Craig &#128509;.
       “But taxing the very benefits American workers have earned after
       decades on the job diminishes our promise and threatens to
       undermine the financial security of retirees already struggling
       with rising prices, “Craig said. “Eliminating this tax will help
       Social Security benefits go further and ensure that American
       retirees have all the resources they need after a lifetime of
       hard work.”
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       Craig said that according to non-partisan analysis the proposed
       legislation would also improve the long-term solvency of Social
       Security compared to current law.
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       To read the full text of the bill, go here
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       />NOTE: Below, if you are good at reality based interpretations
       of
       the Congressional 'how it works' for New Bills,  such as the
       "You Earned It, You Keep It Act (HR 8717)" Bill submitted August
       16, 2022 by Representative Angie Craig &#128509; (D-MN), you
       will learn &#128064; how &#128520; Pelosi, aided and abetted by
       her Chief of Staff, &#128127; Primus (a neoliberal, Wall Street
       worshipping sworn enemy of ANY improvement of Social Security
       and/or Medicare - which is why Pelosi made him Chief of Staff),
       will do all these two &#128520;&#128127; enemies of
       we-the-people can to keep HR 8717
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       />from EVER coming to the House Floor for a vote. A Floor Vote
       would expose the FACT that Pelosi, and too many other so-called
       "Democrats", are AGAINST improving Social Security. They don't
       want most Americans to learn that they are FRAUDS. So, Primus
       and Pelosi, on behalf of the 1% American Oligarchy Social
       Darwinist GREEDBALLS, will 'play' with the Scheduling Calendar
       to kill the HR 8717
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       />&#129318;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039;&#128545;
       However, if more than 226 Reps ( :-[ CORRECTION: there must be
       at least 290) &#128509; push for a &#129413; floor vote, the
       corrupt Scheduling 'fun and  games' will be thwarted and we
       MIGHT get some justice, for a welcome change. May God Hear the
       &#128591;&#127996; prayers of all the humble Social Security
       pensioners and force Pelosi to bring HR 8717
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       />to a floor vote &#128330;&#65039; THIS MONTH.
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       The Fed Stopped Buying MBS Today
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 16, 2022, 11:08 pm
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       Wolf Street
       Sep 16, 2022 by Wolf Richter • Sep 16, 2022 • 179 Comments
       [center]The Fed Stopped Buying MBS Today.[/center]
       [move]The purpose of MBS purchases was to repress mortgage rates
       and inflate home prices. That process has already started to
       reverse.[/move]
       SNIPPET:
       The last time the Fed did QT Nov 2017 – Feb 2020.
       During the last episode of QT, the Fed shed MBS from November
       2017 through February 2020. The chart below shows this phase of
       the MBS reduction. During the phase-in, it took about three
       months before the first declines became recognizable. QT back
       then was much slower, and the phase in was much longer, than in
       the current era of QT.
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       Full article:
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       Reality Based Comments:
       Thunder Sep 16, 2022 at 2:36 am
       “The purpose of MBS purchases was to repress mortgage rates and
       inflate home prices. That process has already started to
       reverse.”
       That last sentence sent a shiver down my spine because I never
       looked at it like that and it will punish the FOMO “real-estate
       always goes up” crowd.
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       Debt can be a two edge sword.
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       />
       WA
       I find it sick that despite promising tightening,
       &#127913;
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       />Fed was still buying MBS to maintain the balance sheet against
       pass through payments.
       A class action lawsuit against US fed should be in order. Here
       is the probable text:
       1. Fed MBS purchases artificially raises house prices and
       consequently raises rent expectations.
       2. These higher rents resulted in Tillions of dollars worth of
       cumulative financial losses to 45% of all American households
       that rent over the last decade.
       3. These artificially higher asset prices also resulted in
       higher property taxes for home owners causing them to lose
       billions of dollar cumulatively. The asset price gains that they
       received were reversed by QT.
       4. To hold the Fed accountable for losses to a majority of
       Americans, we the people will like to Sue the US Federal reserve
       to recover our losses.
       5. We would like the US courts to decide the matter and uphold
       the rule of law.
       What do you guys think about this?
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       AGelbert > WA
       Your logic is sound but the problem for home owners, very
       difficult to overcome in the courts, is their John Handcock on
       the mortgage contracts.
       &#128520; Greenspan began pushing this "wealth effect" SCAM 40
       years ago. I am glad that reality is finally asserting itself
       because, throughout all that period, people who did not own
       homes were defrauded by Fed caused inflation (consistently
       low-balled by the BLS). Thus, while home owners were enjoying
       the ride, they, and EVERYONE ELSE,  simultaneously got the
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       />inflation shaft (i.e. loss of buying power) on just about
       everything else people need to buy just to live, never mind
       optional and luxury goods and services.
       The Government computed cost of living was correctly computed
       before Greenspan began gaming it during the Reagan
       Administration. He kept 'improving' that game to steal from
       pensioners and COLA linked wage earners all the way to late
       1990's.
       Shadow Stats still provides the pre-Greenspan COLA numbers,
       which are always at least 10% higher than BLS published numbers.
       If you want more detail on how we-the-people, particularly those
       who do not own homes, have been massively defrauded by the
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       />Fed gaming of the COLA formula for over 40 years, check out
       the
       Chapwood Index.
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       #Post#: 514--------------------------------------------------
       Inflation Causing Hardship For Majority Of US Households
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 17, 2022, 4:49 pm
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       Agelbert NOTE:  Wolf Richter, who usually gets the big picture,
       disappointed me, replying to the above comment I made, by
       mocking Shadow Stats as a "joke".
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       />If Shadow Stats REALITY BASED inflation numbers are a joke to
       Wolf, then he has a rather strange sense of humor. Wolf wants to
       believe the Greenspan massaged BLS COLA
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       />"math". That is a textbook example of "investment (also called
       "Endowment") bias" caused ERROR in judgement. Wolf is
       cognitively invested in those numbers, so he rationalizes that
       the numbers are "correct"
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       />
       YET, it is Wolf that has OFTEN made clear how the "weighting" of
       "Owners Equivalent Rent" in the CPI (which is used in the basket
       of items to use for the COLA calculation) makes a mockery of the
       TRUE increases in housing costs AND Rent. Despite that
       IRREFUTABLE VIDENCE that inflation is, &#127913;&#128520; with
       malice aforethought, being  deliberately and methodically
       low-balled, Wolf just doesn't want to admit we-the-people have
       been defrauded for at least 40 years by &#128520; Greenspan's
       "Wealth Effect" SCAM. &#129318;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039;
       Wolf Richter needs a reality check. Inflation is a MAJOR problem
       CAUSED by the Fed, which, BY &#127913; FED &#128520; DESIGN,
       MOSTLY hits the poor and middle class. Wolf doesn't want to go
       there. If he doesn't GET
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       />REAL, then he will pay a painful price
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       />for believing the la-la land BLS COLA numbers with hard
       experiences.
       [center]
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       [move]None so blind as those who refuse to see. [/move]
       The following article provides more evidence that the REAL
       INFLATION RATE is closer to Shadow Stats numbers than the BLS
       low-balled COLA pension and wage eroding Greenspan gamed
       formula.
       SATURDAY, SEP 17, 2022
       [center]Inflation Causing Hardship
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       />For Majority Of US Households[/center]
       [move]As inflation remains at the highest level in more than 40
       years, millions of Americans are facing financial hardship due
       to rising consumer prices.[/move]
       Statista's Felix Richter reports that, according to a survey
       conducted by Gallup in August, the majority of U.S. adults now
       say that price increases are causing financial hardship for
       their household, with 12 percent describing their hardship as
       severe, meaning it might affect their ability to maintain their
       current standard of living. Another 44 percent of households
       face moderate hardship, meaning that price increases affect them
       but don’t threaten their standard of living.
       Unsurprisingly, inflation woes affect lower income groups
       disproportionately. While it’s relatively easy to shrug off
       price increases when it only reduces the amount of money left at
       the end of the month, it is much harder for people who struggled
       to make ends meet even before prices started surging.
       [center]
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       Infographic: Inflation Causing Hardship for Majority of U.S.
       Households | Statista
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       You will find more infographics at Statista
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       As the chart above shows, inflation pressure has even caught up
       with high-income households, though, as 40 percent of those with
       household income above $90,000 now say they're facing financial
       hardship in face of inflation, up from just 29 percent in
       November 2021. The share remains much higher for low-income
       households, however, where 74 percent now was severe or moderate
       hardship due to rising prices.
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