{"podcast":{"title":"The David Knight Show","slug":"the-david-knight-show-1060966","podcast_index_feed_id":1060966,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2653468/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://thedavidknightshow.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/870cf2904cf34b2ea31d2b094bf63e30.jpg","author":"David Knight","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Join the journey with David Knight, a true veteran in the realm of news and analysis, and become part of a community that values historical context, critical think, and spiritual insight in navigating the challenges of our era. LIVE every weekday morning at 9am Eastern where you'll find an honest, fresh perspective, not partisan cheerleading. WIth a background as an electrical engineer, David is focused on the interplay of technology & liberty from a Christian perspective. David has had decades of experience in the trenches of politics as an activist, organizer, candidate, reporter, analyst, and news anchor Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T08:17:49.505243+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966"},"episode":{"title":"Wed Episode #2277:  — The Inflation Numbers Are Rigged","slug":"wed-episode-2277-the-inflation-numbers-are-rigged","published_at":"2026-06-03T18:51:29+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966/wed-episode-2277-the-inflation-numbers-are-rigged","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wed-episode-2277-the-inflation-numbers-are-rigged--72329522","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72329522/dks_fs_06_03_2026.mp3","summary":"──────────────────────────────────────── [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…","meta_description":"──────────────────────────────────────── [00:03:00] AI-Reconstructed Inflation Data: The Dollar Has Lost 81% of Its 1980 Value — Official CPI Admits Only…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7325,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-david-knight-show-1060966/episodes/wed-episode-2277-the-inflation-numbers-are-rigged/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966/wed-episode-2277-the-inflation-numbers-are-rigged.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}