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Re:Public Comment on Inflation Measurement by nabla9 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:55PM (#28464508)
They share the information and document it. Please don't succumb to some conspiratory thinking.

They can't take everything into account and hedonic adjustments is used for only small percentage of products. That's one reason why it overestimates inflation.

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Re:Public Comment on Inflation Measurement by klipklop on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:05PM (#28464583)
I don't think the folks that make the CPI are part of some vast conspiracy. I just question their methods. Like all numbers from the government, politics are involved.

You can believe they are (slightly) wrong and not be a "conspiracy theorist/thinker" at the same time.

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Re:Public Comment on Inflation Measurement by nabla9 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @04:03AM (#28467405)
>Like all numbers from the government, politics are involved.

Not really. Details of how CPI is calculated has never been political issue.

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