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Despite What Washington Says,
Real U.S. Inflation Is Skyrocketing

Since 2001, gasoline is up 49%, beef is up 28%, eggs are up 34%, oranges and tomatoes are up 39% and 31%. The cost of buying a home has more than doubled. Health care costs and college tuitions have gone through the roof.

And yet, shameless officials at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics continue to swear on a stack of bibles that inflation is “under control.”

Only a politician or a Washington bureaucrat would have that kind of chutzpah!

How do they get away with that kind of gobbledygook? Simple: The government’s math is so convoluted it would make Enron’s crooked accountants blush in shame!

Did you know, for example that if a product jumps in price but Washington decides the “quality improved,” they’re actually allowed to claim that the price fell?

And did you know that they totally ignore the surging cost of homes and condos, substituting instead the low cost of renting equivalent housing?

Then, they factor in those artificially lower prices — the prices that nobody is actually paying — into the consumer price index, announcing that inflation is “under control!”

But last week, the Fed finally began to admit that something’s fishy. In their official post-meeting statement, they recognized that the surging cost of commodities is feeding inflation. But recognizing it is one thing. Doing something to stop it is another.

Right now, if you think — even for one moment — that inflation is really at just a few meager percentage points per year, you’re kidding yourself. Your cost of living — the price you pay for everything from housing … to food … to fuel … and to health care … is skyrocketing by double digits every single year!