Jeffrey A. Tucker
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265 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Sep
Jeffrey A. Tucker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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are making billions and hundreds of billions of dollars.
And it seems like, wow, things are looking good.
Well, how do we know?
This isn't just the loss of purchasing power.
This is just monetary depreciation playing itself out in real time.
And you know this because when you go to the store, you're every day shocked.
I was trying to buy a snack the other day at the
at the convenience store, and it seemed like everything was $4.
And I thought, what in the world?
Who can afford things like this?
I'm paying $16 for a tiny bucket of cheese.
I mean, nothing really makes any sense.
So we need, and it's even worse that we don't have accurate measures.
The Reality Index, that I like to quote, believes that CPI is better
It's systematically underreporting inflation by about a third.
So when you hear, as we did a couple of days ago, the CPI is running 3.4%, that's bad, but it's probably closer to 4%, at least it was the month before.
So it's actually worse than even the BLS is reporting.
And the reason for that, it's not that the bureaucrats are lying to us, really.
It's that they use weird methodologies that are designed to underreport inflation with hedonic adjustments.
They don't really report house prices.
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