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Podcast: The Real Estate Espresso Podcast
Episode: How Governments Lie About The Economy
Description: On today’s show we are talking about some of the tricks that bureaucrats use to manipulate the inflation metrics that are being used to decide monetary policy. The cost of money affects the cost of virtually everything we buy. So the power to manipulate the economy and affect the fortunes of an entire population is in the hands of a handful of people who quite frankly have not earned the right to wield so much power.
But before we talk about the manipulations we need to define a few terms so that the inc...