Inflation Myth: How the Government's Favorite Statistic Hides the Truth About Your Money: Why Everyt

Are you spending more but being told inflation is "under control"? Does the official 3% CPI feel like a punchline when your rent, groceries, and healthcare say otherwise?

The Inflation Myth dismantles the economic gaslighting embedded in every headline, policy statement, and financial forecast. This relentless, brutally clear-eyed exposé shows how the Consumer Price Index-a metric revered by economists and media alike-has become a politically manipulated tool designed to understate the true cost of modern life.

Drawing on history, monetary policy, and lived experience, the book breaks apart the fiction of "average inflation" by exposing the flaws in CPI methodology: hedonic adjustments that claim paying more for a thinner TV is cheaper; substitution logic that assumes you'll trade steak for beans without consequence; and the exclusion of housing, childcare, digital subscriptions, and medical bankruptcy from core inflation data.

But this isn't just about statistics-it's about survival. You'll learn how inflation quietly robs your time, erodes your privacy, inflates your digital obligations, and punishes savings disguised as virtue. With chapters on regional inflation, wage stagnation, shrinkflation, and the politics of denial, this book arms you with the language and tools to measure your own reality-and stop accepting manipulated numbers as truth.

If you've ever looked at your bank account and wondered why your money feels smaller than the headlines say it should, this is your definitive answer. It's not you. It's the system. And it's time to name it.