[Principled]

BLATANT LIE

[Technogeeb]

BLATANT LIE

No, merely fact, you liar. From the BLM web site (http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm):

As a matter of policy, BLS is continually researching improved statistical methods. Thus, even between major revisions, further improvements to the CPI are made. For example, until recently, the Bureau would continue to price the brand-name version of a prescription drug even after it lost its patent protection, if the brand-name drug was still sold in the selected outlet. Starting in January 1995, BLS changed this policy