The article should be renamed to:
"Why measuring inflation using the CPI is misleading"
The CPI is designed by the government in order to give it plenty of slack to keep printing money.
The CPI is designed by the government in order to give it plenty of slack to keep printing money.
You are free to criticize ineffective central bank policies that drive inequality though.
In the US, 1/6 of the workforce is paid directly by the government, which indirectly generate something in the range of 30-50% of all economic activity in the country.
Hence why it's in the best interest of the government to state there's "low inflation": it doesn't have to spend too much with its payroll, while it can "profit" more from the money it prints.