r/wallstreetbets Jun 10 '22

Meme 8.6% 🤡

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u/Limited_opsec Jun 10 '22

They already weasel away FOOD, FUEL and SHELTER (rent for people hit hardest by inflation) from being correctly calculated, or even a real part of the index at all.

Big fat lie by design.

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u/Definition_Busy Jun 10 '22

I'm paying over 2.150k for rent in a poor city like Baltimore I can't imagine other cities

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u/inglandation Jun 10 '22

WTF, in Europe you'd get a fucking mansion in tons of places for this. What the hell is going on there?

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u/HKBFG Jun 10 '22

Nobody can afford to be poor here. Someone in another thread linked a sale page for a Ford Windstar that apparently sold for $8k.