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To: Moominoid who wrote (35637)6/11/2008 1:41:26 PM
From: Night Trader  Read Replies (1) of 217573
 
Things like hedonic adjustments are arguable and most other countries don't do it for their inflation figures hence their CPIs are higher. Still there's a case for such sophistication and it's certainly not just a fraud, more a philosophical viewpoint. The beter economists like Ian Shepherdson are the people to weight not the loudmouths with a website - Carl Weinberg calls them "teenage scribblers".
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