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Strategies & Market Trends : MDA - Market Direction Analysis
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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (26359)9/20/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 99985
 
If you search under "Michael Boskin" who headed the government panel on CPI adjustments, you'll find the downward adjustments and eventually, the paper from which the DOL made its adjustments. Labor unions were against it as can be seen below.

uaw.com

europe.cnnfn.com

It was a pact between Clinton and the Congress who wanted to raise spending and lower marginal rates by slowing the rate of growth of the majority of the budget that's on auto-pilot.

Since they only make downward adjustments in the measurement, it's hardly an objective measure.
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