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Wed Episode #2277: — The Inflation Numbers Are Rigged
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- The David Knight Show
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- Jun 3, 2026
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──────────────────────────────────────── [00:03:00] AI-Reconstructed Inflation Data: The Dollar Has Lost 81% of Its 1980 Value — Official CPI Admits Only 74% The Reality Index strips hedonic adjustments and owner's equivalent rent: $1 in 1980 now buys 19 cents — official CPI says 26; since COVID alone the loss is 40–50%. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:15:00] Official Recession Is Two Negative Quarters — We've Had Negative Growth in Almost Every Quarter Since 2022 Brownstone's Jeffrey Tucker: cumulative economic losses since 2020 are already roughly half the entire Great Depression — concealed entirely by manipulated government statistics. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:25:00] Kevin Warsh Will Measure Inflation With 'Trimmed Mean PCE' — a New Metric That Removes All the Bad Data Knight: the formula has changed eight times in 35 years, always minimizing the true rate of price increases — and Warsh has already announced publicly how he intends to rig it again. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:38:00] Only 20 S&P Stocks Hit Records — Identical to the Dot-Com Peak When 7 of the 20 Were Internet-Related Bank of America's Hartnett: the market is narrowly focused on one hopium industry producing no revenue — concentration levels almost identical to March 2000, with AI replacing internet stocks. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:50:00] Trump Drops the $1.776 Billion Slush Fund — But the IRS Immunity Addendum That Saves His Family $100 Million Stays Todd Blanche testified he is 'not moving forward with the fund' — but neither he nor his deputy would put the IRS immunity provision in writing or formally reverse it. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:02:00] Blanche Shows Congress the Epstein Co-Conspirator Files — The…