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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (767119)

1/30/2014 9:02:23 PM

From: SilentZ

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Based on the above definition, the inflation rate should be primarily a measure of things of necessity, i.e. survival items would have the top billing over computers. Food and energy actually reflect inflation better than anything else. Which is why the gubbiement doesn't want those items counted.
Right. But it never has. So once again, other than anecdotal evidence and isolated data points, do you have any good, consistent measures that can be used? If not, then as mediocre as it is, the official inflation number is all we have and it's at least semiuseful because it's been calculated basically the same way for decades. -Z