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Government Gaslights people about the economy.

Public opinion polls consistently show the economy is one of the top issues, if not the top issue, for

American voters.

This may strike some as odd since official government statistics show low unemployment and declining price inflation

suggesting the Federal Reserve has engineered a soft landing bringing down inflation without causing a recession.

So why the concern over the economy?

One reason is more people are realizing government economic figures hide the truth about the economy.

Recession since 2022, U.S. economic income and output have fallen overall for four years is a Brownstone Institute research paper by E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Dr. Peter St. Ones, a fellow with the Mises Institute.

It details how the federal government understates inflation while making wages, prices, and profits economic growth

appear stronger.

Dr. Antoni and Dr.. Ones used a more accurate measure of inflation than that used by government

to uncover the true state of the economy.

Their calculations show that the U.S. economy has been in recession since

2022. The government claims that GDP increased by approximately 13.7% from 2019 through the first half of 2024.

When the more accurate inflation number is used, the result is a 2.5% decline

in the GDP. The federal government's figures also show the American people's disposable income increased

by 12.9 percent from 2019 through the first half of 2024.

However, when the more accurate way of calculating price

inflation is used,

it shows Americans' disposable income decline by 2.3%.

Dr. Antoni and Dr St. Hans are hardly the first to expose how the government uses doctored statistics to make the economy look

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