Why can't you get the data used to create the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
The CPI is a weighted average of several categories.  and some of those categories severely underestimate inflation.  For instance, the CPI says new car prices haven&#x27;t increased in the last 20 years but, that&#x27;s obviously not true, if you calculate the real cpi for say a corrolla or a camaro or whatever model you choose, you can see it&#x27;s gone up about 40 to 60% in that time which means for that category, they&#x27;re undercounting CPI by almost 2 to 3 %.<p>I think they&#x27;re trying to prevent people from calculating the real CPI.  there&#x27;s  alot at stake: the bond market, social security, federal interest payments, perception of real wages, real productivity per capita number, etc.