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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GraceZ who wrote (2991)	7/9/2003 12:09:01 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4913

<What is humorous about this discussion is that hedonic adjustments were instituted largely in an attempt to measure the GDP in terms of quality instead of simply adding up prices and adjusting for inflation. Which is the thing that DAK complains isn't in the numbers. > Actually I was talking the cost side, that would no doubt make even less sense to try to integrate into the numbers. BTW, I don't think the numbers should be adjusted for any of this stuff, just be aware of their shortcomings. DAK