@syke6 wrote, " Do we have confidence the DOL will report inflation data accurately going forward? For example, we know that CDC is already suppressing avian flu information."
I am very concerned about this. I think it’s a real possibility. After all, the way that CPI was calculated was already changed in the late 1990s when so-called “hedonic adjustments” were used by the BLS to suppress inflation.
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/white-papers/hedonic-quality-adjustments-statistical-agency-perspective.pdf
The Shadow Government Statistics has been following this suppression for many years.
https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
It wouldn’t be hard to do something like this again. I wonder how many BLS officials lost their job by objecting too hard to hedonic adjustments during the Clinton administration. We know that DOGE wouldn’t hesitate for a second to do this now.
Wendy