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The truth is; many countries (known examples; US, China, India, Turkey, Argentina) , significantly manipulate inflation and jobless stats, by playing with the contents and weight of the baskets used or definitions of job seekers/willingness to work.

The economist's spotlight on Argentina is due to the British establishment's dislike of the currently elected Argentinian government and England/Argentina tensions of the past decades.

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> The economist's spotlight on Argentina is due to the British establishment's dislike of the currently elected Argentinian government and England/Argentina tensions of the past decades.

Indeed the current situation in Argentina is very extreme in terms of democracy: people being prosecuted for thinking differently, the government building an explicit criminal association. The conflict with the Falklands is finished and the Argentinisn government uses it as smokescreen.

The argentinian official CPI is totally messed up, and it's been years with all argentinians knowing that.

In the US, the inflation is so close to 0 that the index can be manipulated without rising as much suspicion.

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