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Comment by mikeyouse

Shadow stats isn't credible in any way. They can't even be bothered to take the raw data and apply the 'old' weights to them, so they just arbitrarily add a few percentage points to the CPI. The BLS has dedicated far too much effort into showing why they are an asinine source for 'data':

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/08/art1full.pdf

Consider this:

If "real" inflation was 7%/year, in 10 years, the price of everything would be 100% higher than it was previously. How many things in your life are twice as expensive as they were in 2004? Now how many things aren't twice as expensive?

parent mikeyouse 12 years ago

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