fake inflation numbers

FAKE INFLATION, FAKE EMPLOYMENT, FAKE ECONOMY: THE FED’S “PROSPERITY” IS A LIE BUILT TO COLLAPSE

EDITOR'S NOTES

This firestarter of an article from The Burning Platform lays out the sheer insanity of our economic reality—one where manipulated data is weaponized, the working class is squeezed dry, and the elites build a Potemkin prosperity while quietly prepping for the implosion they engineered. I’m here to break it down and show you how it ties directly into the greatest digital trap ever constructed: CBDCs and FedNow.

The Inflation Lie: When 2.7% Feels Like 30%

The government just reported a 2.7% Consumer Price Index (CPI)—the lowest in five years. Wall Street cheered, politicians grinned, and the media obediently parroted the line. But for anyone who’s actually been to a grocery store, paid a utility bill, or tried to insure a car lately, that number is a sick joke. According to the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the official Consumer Price Index rose by just 2.7 % over the past year — the lowest annual inflation rate since 2020 — even though many Americans are still seeing much higher price increases on essentials like food and utilities. These fake inflation numbers mask the real pain felt at the checkout line and in monthly bills, making the government’s headline figure feel detached from everyday reality.

Look around:

  • Electricity bills up 30%
  • Car insurance up 20%
  • Meat, rent, and taxes up across the board
  • Used car prices still inflated 35% over pre-2020 levels

This isn’t inflation. It’s engineered theft—silent, systemic, and strategically underreported.

Employment Mirage: Cooking the Jobs Books

They told us unemployment dropped to 4.4% and that 50,000 new jobs were added. What they didn’t emphasize? Every single month of 2025’s job reports has now been revised down. December’s numbers will be quietly edited into the red—after the market has moved on and nobody's watching.

People who give up looking for jobs aren’t even counted anymore. If you think only 7.5 million Americans are unemployed while 103 million adults are "not in the labor force," you're being played. These aren’t statistics—they’re propaganda.

If the Economy’s “Booming,” Why Is the Fed Panicking?

Let’s use their own narrative:

  • GDP is up
  • Unemployment is down
  • Inflation is under control
  • Stock market at record highs

Then riddle me this—why is the Fed planning rate cuts and gearing up for another round of quantitative easing?

Because the machine is seizing. The repo market scare of 2019 was the canary in the coal mine. They barely held it together with a $5 trillion stimulus barrage during COVID. Now, the cracks are too big to paper over.

Gold and silver are sounding the alarm. You don’t see metals spike 5% in a day during a healthy economy. The derivative suppression games are losing effectiveness. The system is hemorrhaging.

Wages Stagnate While Profits Soar: Workers Get the Shaft

Once upon a time, workers took home about 64% of GDP. Today? That’s down to 53.8%—the lowest on record.

Meanwhile, corporate profit margins just hit 10.9%, the second-highest in history.

Translation:

  • Wages are being suppressed
  • Jobs are being outsourced or automated
  • The working class is being sacrificed on the altar of shareholder value

This isn't capitalism—it's corporatism wrapped in kleptocracy. The middle class is a herd being thinned out while the billionaires build their arks.

The Debt Deluge: America’s Financial Trapdoor

Consumer debt is exploding. Here's the breakdown:

  • Auto loan delinquencies back to Great Recession levels
  • Student loan delinquencies at a 21-year high
  • Credit card delinquencies nearing 2011 territory
  • $18.6 trillion in household debt

And Trump’s PR stunt to cap interest rates at 10%? Political theater. It won’t fix the problem—it will accelerate the collapse.

The most at-risk?

  • Households earning under $50K
  • Seniors living on fixed incomes
    These are the people propping up the economy, and they're being bled dry.

The War Machine Distraction: Look Over There!

When economic lies start to fray, what do governments do? They beat the war drums.

This time it's the usual suspects: Iran, Russia, China, and even Mexico and Colombia. The provocations, drone attacks, and saber-rattling are not random—they're deliberate distractions from a financial system teetering on the edge of systemic failure.

Is it about distracting the public from the implosion? Or are these engineered crises part of a deeper plan? Either way, the result is the same: chaos used to consolidate control.

From Economic Collapse to CBDC Control Grid

Here’s where it all converges: the lies about inflation, employment, debt, and economic growth are paving the road to full digital monetary control.

Once the collapse hits, they'll say:

"We need a reset. Here's the solution: a secure, efficient, programmable digital dollar."

FedNow and CBDCs will be rolled out as “life-saving reforms”—but in reality, they are digital shackles:

  • Programmable money that can expire, be geo-fenced, or blocked based on behavior
  • Total financial surveillance of every transaction
  • Loss of privacy, autonomy, and the ability to dissent

The entire rigged system was never meant to last. It was designed to fail—so they could replace it with something far worse.

The Final Word: Prepare, or Be Digitally Enslaved

We are ruled by those who lie fluently and govern by deception. They are burning the world down and offering you a digital leash as the escape route.

The center will not hold. But you don’t have to be crushed in the collapse.

Your next move matters.
Download the Digital Dollar Reset Guide by Bill Brocius—the only blueprint built for those who see the digital chains being forged in real time.

Get it here — it’s required reading for survival in the CBDC era.

Because once FedNow becomes your wallet, it’s already too late.