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To: Toddsterpatriot; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
There are a few private price inflation indexes.

One, recently developed by economists Roberto Rigobon and Alberto Cavallo, is the MIT's Sloan School of Management Billion Prices Project (BPP) (http://bpp.mit.edu/ ).

They have slightly different inputs but, in general, are pretty comparable to the U.S. government's BLS indexes, especially over the longer periods, as most price inflation indexing schemes' input-related spikes are generally "self-correcting" over time.

Data for the USA is at http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/

Ref: NIA Backs Sarah Palin In Inflation Dispute - FR, post #6, 2010 November 17

Ref: Misconceptions about the CPI (FR Thread to Prove or Disprove CPI and Shadow Stats)(17page PDF file) - FR, posts #31, #40, 2011 April 15

71 posted on 12/02/2011 2:51:23 AM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: CutePuppy
Thanks for reminding me about BPP.
They do real work, unlike Shadowstats.
73 posted on 12/02/2011 11:11:11 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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