INFLATION: Changing How We Measure It Since 1980

Recovering investment banker Carol Roth agrees with Sec. Yellen that the economy is firing on ‘all cylinders’, just not quite the way she means it. Despite inflation being a mere 3.5%, Jesse asks how it can be so low compared to the individual numbers we see. Roth reveals that it’s a sneaky, little old trick called ‘moving the goalposts’.