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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

CPI A smart students question

If the CPI overstate inflation, how do we know we are not overcorrecting for this and end up understating inflation?
What is the number telling us about the real world when we remove the volatile part of inflation? Does that mean nobody uses energy during that time!?
Posted by Javaman at 3/15/2006 07:45:00 AM 1 comment:
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