[kevao]

Also rather neat that core inflation is one of the main tools used by the Fed to measure how well they are doing. /sarc

Also rather neat is that CPI determines retirees' COLAs.

[khelus]

Also rather neat is that CPI determines retirees' COLAs.

1999 Economic Report of the President: . . . ‘reason for the slowing of reported price indexes has been methodological changes to both the CPI and the indexes used in the national income accounts’.