Why do we exclude the price of things like Food, Housing and Energy costs when looking at the total number for inflation?

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I’ve been looking for a reasonable explanation for this for a while and literally cannot find one. SO help me understand, please. ❤️🤷‍♀️

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Because the government never wants to look bad.

Statistics are often manipulated to make things look better or worse than they actually are. The Federal government is especially good at this.

Sometimes it is also just complicated as hell to ascribe a number to something.

There is almost always more to the story than any 1 number that describes something like “Inflation”.

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