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To: tacticalogic

“How much of that is apples and oranges? Somewhere in that history the government took commodity prices like food and fuel out of the calculations.”


“Shadow Government Stats, which calculates the CPI the way it was calculated by the government in 1990, has annualized CPI at 11.2% versus the current BLS number of 3.6%.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/shadow-stats-price-inflation-at-112.html


17 posted on 06/23/2011 5:52:45 AM PDT by MulberryDraw ( Switch off the EPA.)
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To: MulberryDraw

“Shadow Government Stats, which calculates the CPI the way it was calculated by the government in 1990, has annualized CPI at 11.2% versus the current BLS number of 3.6%.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/shadow-stats-price-inflation-at-112.html
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wow!!!
Obama makes Carter look great...


113 posted on 06/23/2011 7:53:58 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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