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This is not a difference of a couple mill. this is 20 million unemployed last thanksgiving to just 2 million now. as reported today, and i dont think that this has sunk in, some of the best jobs numbers this 50 years. yet biden approval in general thot that great. >> i would say especially on the economy. this american sense of where the economy is heading is completely out of whack with these numbers. part of that is for good reason. because these figures dont take into account inflation. they ...

May have found that youre more likely to be bumped or canceled. sometimes you just see it in little details like when youre in a fast food establishment, how many of the soda machines are broken. how many buttons of the soda fountain dont work. when youre trying to get a contractor to come work on your house, it seems like theyre less responsive than they normally are. >> many of these changes like adjustments to customer service are hard to measure with traditional metrics of inflation, which m...

Continues. enter ben popkin. >> gas, food, homes, prices across the board on the rise yet again. the consumer price index, a measure of inflation, increasing by another .4% in september, a total of 5.4 increase from the same time last year. after several consistent months of increases and the surge in prices, consumers are left in the spot where they may not see all the ways theyre paying more for less. this, a result of so-called shadow inflation. you may have heard of inflation and even shrink...

Left in a spot where they may not see all of the ways theyre paying more for less. this the result of so-called shadow inflation. you may have heard of inflation and even shrink-flation. what is shadow inflation? >> inflation is usually when youre getting the same thing for more money. but in this case something that you purchased in the past isnt as good as it was before, but youre nonetheless paying the same price for it. >> reporter: to keep up with their rising cost and labor shortages that ...

"Business Insider" Gregg Stebben talks Shadow Inflation with Billl...There Is Shadow Inflation Taking Place All Around Us!! Some companies haven’t been raising prices. Instead, they’ve been cutting back customer services and conveniences, but how should that be measured?

Inflation and a different type of inflation, shadow inflation. this has real implications for everyday americans and what we experience as far as what we can get on the store shelves, but also, the service industry as well. this is "the new york times" on that. they are a shadow inflation taking place all around us. a hotel room might cause the same as a year ago but no longer includes daily cleaning services because of the shortage of housekeepers. some restaurants are offering limited services...

Shadow inflation? >> it is real but i wait and pack it differently. one, we know that leisure hospitality sector which is predominantly service got hit during the pandemic. we know brick-and-mortar retail got hit during the pandemic due to the pandemic. so with these type of sectors reopening, there is no question that there is going to be transitional service. there will be supply issues discussed. impact on the consumer. and we are seeing it throughout the entire service sector. there is no qu...