CPI massively understated inflation (1).
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
``By ignoring housing prices, the CPI massively understated inflation for years. The CPI is massively overstating inflation now.''
CPI; CS-CPI; Fed Fund Rates; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
overstating GDP, understating inflation; ``taking steps towards being a small-minded, elite-dominated, sham democracy...I wonder if there is some unconscious mass desire to give up on the messiness and ambiguity of an open society and surrender to the certainty of one with institutionalized inequality, more authoritarianism, but more predictability, and perhaps an illusion of greater security.''
Banana Republic Status; GDP Release Signals Further Decline; naked capitalism.
Sun 2008-03-23 00:00 EDT
"Many of the stated economic gains have been a false ghost. Whether it was overstated job creation (NFP), understated inflation (CPI) or "inflated" growth (GDP), a shocking amount of the debate about the economic expansion has been primarily spin."
Big Picture; good times; investment; K; Mirage; Post-Fact Society.
Mon 2007-12-03 00:00 EST
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Ministry of Truth to Rectify Key Economic Data; understating inflation; overstating growth; truck tonnage, container traffic confirm slack demand and recessionary conditions
economic; Market; ministries; Rectify Key Economic Data; truth; watch; winter.
Mon 2007-10-08 00:00 EDT
Inflation Measurement and Price Volatility, by Federal Reserve banker Richard Fisher; FRB Dallas; understating inflation
events; FRB Dallas; Inflation measure; news; Price Volatility; Richard Fisher Speeches.
Tue 2007-08-28 00:00 EDT
by Timothy Aeppel, The Wall Street Journal; 2003-05-09; understating inflation; hedonic adjustment
Sun 2007-07-01 00:00 EDT
An Annualized Inflation Rate of Under 3%... WHO ARE THEY KIDDING? by Fred Cederholm; understating inflation - The Smirking Chimp
Sun 2007-07-01 00:00 EDT
Inflation of the nation -- it's there. By Justin Lahart; 2003-11-4; understating inflation; housing adjustments using "owners' equivalent rent"
