Tom Bilyeu

He's like, in today's world, why are we using this super outdated system?

There's ways to get this data in real time.

So that's what Truflation does.

And theoretically, this allows them to measure housing, for instance, more realistically, and they can skip the outdated tricks of like, well,

We see this little thing over here and because we don't have enough data, we run this fancy math equation and we think that this is what it's gonna be.

So they don't have to do that.

They're just looking at way more data points.

And by bypassing the outdated tricks that often make official CPI numbers look hotter and are definitely farther behind, they're hopefully able to get closer to the on the ground reality.

Truflation's primary index calculates their number by comparing the current cost of a basket of goods this is what people normally do with CPI to the same day one year ago so that's what these numbers are so we went from I think 1.7 to 1.55 but it's year over year and they're updating daily with real-time data from over 13 million items across various sources while users can derive month over month or other intervals from the underlying data the headline percentage that Truflation

is talking about right now that's on their dashboard is in fact year over year.

So this is very encouraging.

And ultimately, for context, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, official CPI for December of 2025 was 2.7 year over year.

So Truflation's index aims to predict and track in real time, getting you something that's better.

So I don't know that, I don't think the right way to look at that is like, well, my God, we've had this huge fall off.

It's that their methodology and the more frequent updates is just more accurate.

So assuming that Truflation's real-time data is actually showing us

better numbers, which again is 1.55% year over year as of January 16th, 2026.

If that accurately reflects the economy more than the Bureau of Labor Statistics lagging 2.7, this could signal that inflation is cooling faster than official metrics suggest.

And here's what that might imply for anybody that's asking, like, is Trump's economy actually working?

So based on their key pillars, tariffs, tax cuts, deregulation, energy independence, and immigration restrictions, where is this going?