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It's easy to rig - remove key commodities like food, fuel, housing from the calculations because the are "volatile" then base your numbers on products that are increasingly built overseas in nations with a impractically favorable exchange rate. That is, in fact, what has been done, but there is a limit to how long this ruse can last.

"Your food costs more, but if you bought a new iPad, it would be faster, so it balances out."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUSTR...

Going from "I see higher inflation" to "a nationwide measure is rigged" is a big leap.

Come on. If people stopped posting "I saw X once, so your national statistic is wrong" that would wipe out huge swathes of comments on.... OH!

Rigged? All they have to do is change the methodology of how it's calculated.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

The Fed's monetary policy exactly fits the definition of "taxation without representation".