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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: re3 who wrote (25256)	12/6/2009 10:52:15 AM
From: Real Man	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

He has it on his web site, shadowstats.com. Primer introduction, detailing all changes and politically correct reporting. While everyone knows the government stats is politically biased, or incorrect (in other words), I do think it's too much of a job for 1 person to reconstruct what BLS does to it's reporting. One thing that is well known to give lower CPI than reality (and, as a result, higher GDP growth number) is that the index is a geometric average. The proof exists in Statistics, it's mathematical. So, this is absolute truth, like a proven mathematical theorem. There can be no doubt that the CPI reporting is incorrect. We don't consume geometrically. -g- And if all numbers are screwed up, how can the Fed possibly make an informed interest rate decision? Let alone the fact that they are not Gods either.