To be a fly on the wall when the Pedophile Jeffrey introduced the Prostitute Melania to Chomo Donald.

Don't have to make up what you stop talking about.

They are already made up to an extent when they keep changing the assumptions behind the numbers. Now they just won't have any basis in reality.

Also, say you typically buy beef, pork, chicken, beef, salmon, avocados, cheese, nuts, beer, and wine and everything stays the same price except the beef, which goes up 15% per year. What are you going to notice? The beef, obviously. Is your perception going to be that overall inflation is 2% because only the beef went up, or is it going to be that inflation is out of control because beef went up 15% in just one year? Probably that inflation is out of control.

Humans are terrible at estimating inflation because humans have evolved to pay attention to things that change, and to not pay attention to things that don't change or that change very slowly.

The "Inflation Rate" is an average across all products

Except the official inflation numbers most often cited specifically exclude food, housing, and energy.

AKA the things people can't live without and that they spend the vast majority of their money on.

Which of course makes them utterly useless for anyone except the 10% or fewer who are rich enough that the majority of their spending is on less fundamental things.

That's not even a Trump kakistocracy thing, that's just one of the many ways in which the billionaire-owned media and ditto government have reinforced their "the economy" = "the metrics that matter most to rich people" swindle for decades if not centuries.

Argentinian method?

No, it’s around a 45% hike. If you go by the total cost for each, it’s a 59.48% increase. But that ignores that the package on the right weighs more to start with - 4.88 lbs vs 4.48 lbs. If you compare the unit prices, the increase from $10.99 to $15.99 per lb is really 45.5%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consumer_Price_Index#Item_coverage

Huh really? I too was unaware of this.

In a way it makes sense if it has it's own inflation statistic to work with but that also must ve used publicly then.

Can you comment on the Wikipedia article someone else linked where the first item included is "Food and beverages"?