2026-01-18 18:33:59

Scrolling through social feeds, you'll catch plenty of panic about tariff-driven inflation. But here's what the numbers actually show: CPI came in at 2.7% this month, down from 2.9% back in January. The disconnect between market narrative and reality is pretty wild. People keep pushing the same inflation story regardless of what the data says—worth keeping your own scorecard on this one.

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quietly_staking

· 22h ago

Did the data lie? No, the story was just too smoothly crafted.

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BlockchainWorker

· 01-21 04:25

The data is right here, and yet you still have to make up stories. Truly incredible.

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LiquidationWizard

· 01-21 00:14

The data is right in front of us, but some people insist on making up stories. It seems that the right to narrate is indeed valuable.

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BakedCatFanboy

· 01-18 19:02

Data-driven narratives, now that's what I want to hear. Stop spreading false rumors, everyone.

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Token_Sherpa

· 01-18 19:02

ngl the narrative-reality gap here is actually textbook ponzinomics behavior applied to macro discourse. data says 2.7% but the collective still wants to run the same tape? that's just velocity trap thinking bleeding into tradfi spaces tbh. keep score, absolutely—but also ask *why* people need this story to stay true despite what the charts show. incentive design problem, not an information one.

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blockBoy

· 01-18 19:02

The data is all here, and you're still shouting about inflation, that's really outrageous.

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TooScaredToSell

· 01-18 18:59

The data is right there, yet the CPI has actually decreased. How can people still be crying about inflation?

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Layer3Dreamer

· 01-18 18:47

theoretically speaking, the narrative-reality gap here mirrors the cross-rollup state verification problem... everyone's broadcasting the same unverified transaction (inflation panic) without actually checking the merkle roots (data). 2.7% vs 2.9%—mathematically trivial but narratively explosive. kinda beautiful how people optimize for emotional consistency rather than truth vectors, ngl

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