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To: Moominoid who wrote (35637)6/11/2008 1:41:26 PM
From: Night Trader  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217561
 
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".