To: FromLori
The legitimate way to deal with the “volatility” of food and energy prices is not to compute a pseudo-price-inflation-rate by excluding them, but to report a running average of the inflation rate including them.
58 posted on
02/12/2011 8:11:27 PM PST by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: The_Reader_David
The legitimate way to deal with the “volatility” of food and energy prices is not to compute a pseudo-price-inflation-rate by excluding them, but to report a running average of the inflation rate including them. They report that every month, it's called CPI-U.
63 posted on
02/13/2011 8:30:32 AM PST by
Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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