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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (149657)	11/11/2010 2:39:05 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541648

Apples and pears as someone said this morning. Nice line. To compare the government's aggregate numbers on inflation with the Bush administration's argument on WMD is, hmmm, apples to pears at best. You can look at the inflation data and how it's computed and recompute it for yourself. It's done each time those reports come out. Just tune in to CNBC each time they come out and you will hear the numbers beaten to death. Because they can see the numbers. Don't know whether you tried to get the Bush intelligence reports before we attacked Iraq to see how reliable they were? If so, bless you. I couldn't find them on my TV. The government, in short, is not always the same across administrations and/or across departments. As for the rest, if you've got better numbers than the government, let's have at it. Remembering that they offer you a way to come up with your own measures. As for Krugman, whether you agree or disagree with him, he's very careful about citing his data sources. And if you note the comments and his responses to them, he will engage folk in how he used them and whether other data sets are better. But he has no patience for folk who simply say they believe inflation is going up. So there.