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To: Moominoid who wrote (2820)	5/16/2007 9:55:47 AM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 2852

I guess the key is that you have to separate the data that can be easily manipulated, and the data that are not easily manipulated<g> like CPI, I heard that now 40% of the core CPI is on housing, knowing housing is in a dump, so artificially drag down CPI. I doubt they used this high percent 2-3 years ago when housing price was at all time high. So that means they are constantly reviewing the formula being used to calculate the CPI, this is what I meant by "manipulating"