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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike M2 who wrote (73604)	1/14/2000 4:07:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, Other Govts may not be using it yet, but the US method makes sense to me. How else can you handle a deflationary trend in the tech sector of the economy? Pioneering techniques often seem invalid. -BGR.

To: Mike M2 who wrote (73604)	1/14/2000 7:13:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 132070

They announced more changes today. Message 12571513 They've been working overtime making new adjustments no doubt since people are upgrading their purchases to higher priced items of the same product (such as big screen or flat screen TVs). The problem with making these 'qualitative' adjustments is that the inflation index has no relation to the increase in the cost of living. Of course, in the government, they only measure the cost of living differential between locales and each locale is adjusted downward.