I knew about them excluding shelter from the CPI in the late 80s, as Volcker raising rates was raising shelter inflation in a feed back loop, and this untethered the CPI from reality. I’d not heard about them goosing the unemployment numbers.

You need to journey to Epstein’s island to find Bill Gates to discover the secret.

I think it was when the gold standard ended, and poverty was rampant as all the debt unwound. Black unemployment was 30%.