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Real GDP uses CPI as a correction factor making it highly misleading.

CPI is thoroughly flawed. It doesn't take into account that consumables are actually falling in value by 5%/year due to ever increasing efficiencies of production, and it only includes a carefully selected basket of goods which notably doesn't include hard assets like real estate. It's algorithm is even changed through years and if we use algorithms from previous decades, they produce much higher figures.

It completely ignores the fact that the fiat currencies are devalued through money supply inflation (the real inflation)




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