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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4256553" data-attributes="member: 5412">You would be correct being skeptical. If the Biden administration used the same metrics that the government did under Jimmy Carters administration, every number in the CPI would be well into double digits. The biden administration changed the method of calculation so the final numbers wouldn’t look so terrible. Inflation is cumulative. If it’s 9% one year and 8% the next year the total cumulative number is 17%.</blockquote>