welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time out of time with john robina dollar collapse dot com john welcome back me max i wanted to touch you about something i just saw some numbers here let me get these out of the way listen to us over the past year prices of lumber up 115 percent soybeans up 59 percent corn up 45 percent cotton up 30 percent coffee up 25 percent wheat up 16 percent u.s. home prices up 10 percent the u.s. consumer price index reported up 1.4 percent yeah isn't it nice how they're controlling inflation you know i'm really impressed with the management skills of our monetary hairdos but you know a lot is slated to there's a big problem here why would the government lie about that 1.4 percent when it's clearly and demonstrably and provably false why do they lie to answer is probably one is that it's just so normal for them to lie you you'd be surprised when they do tell the truth and the other is the. the way they calculate inflation is designed to hide a lot of it for instance in the consumer price index which is their measure of inflation you know what they