#1306 Stefan Rust | Inflation Is Wrong — Here is Proof
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Rust is the Founder of Truflation, it’s an alternative economic measurement platform using new data to better measure inflation. In this conversation, we talk about the problems with the current CPI measurement from the government, what Truflation is doing differently, how they are collecting data, personalized inflation, global opportunities, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Many of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp |
| 0:07.7 | podcast, which is my effort to find the most interesting people in the world and sit with them for hours while I ask questions in an effort to learn. So it would mean the world to me if you would subscribe to the show on your favorite audio platform, watch episodes on YouTube, |
| 0:21.1 | and tell your friends and family about the podcast. My goal is to help millions learn from the |
| 0:26.5 | world's most interesting people. So let's get in to today's episode. Today's episode is with |
| 0:32.4 | Stefan Rust. He's the founder of Truflation. It's an alternative economic measurement platform that has all sorts of new data that is trying to get better at answering the question, what is inflation? |
| 0:43.8 | And how should we be measuring it? |
| 0:45.6 | In this conversation, we talk about what are the problems with the current CPI measurement from the U.S. government and the Bureau of Labor Statistics? |
| 0:51.8 | We also get into what Trufflation is doing differently. |
| 0:58.0 | How are they collecting data? What is the methodology? And who is this going to help? Will it be investors, consumers, the government, or maybe someone else? I always enjoy talking |
| 1:02.6 | to entrepreneurs who are willing to make big bets in areas that people seem to have left behind. |
| 1:07.4 | And Stefan is the epitome of exactly that. So I hope you enjoyed this conversation. |
| 1:11.9 | I learned a lot and I think you will as well. Here is my conversation with Stefan Rust. |
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| 1:46.7 | Now listen up, if you're like me, you feel like you are at a command center when you sit |
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