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1 posted on 04/13/2011 5:13:00 AM PDT by radioone
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Cooked the books....again!!!


2 posted on 04/13/2011 5:27:52 AM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!)
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They could measure inflation more accurately just by looking at the growth in a broad, diversified basket of commodities (aggs, energy, metals, etc.). Of course, that won’t te Bernanke what he and his Manhattan banker friends want to hear.


3 posted on 04/13/2011 5:37:26 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Mitt Romney: He's from Harvard, and he's here to help.)
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Obama - the reincarnation of the Carter Administration!
4 posted on 04/13/2011 6:48:36 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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no chit???


5 posted on 04/13/2011 7:20:12 AM PDT by phockthis
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The Obama&Co. misery index still on the up tick.


6 posted on 04/13/2011 10:33:01 AM PDT by Vaduz
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"Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker tweaked the methodology in order to account for things such as product replacements and improvements to technology and their effects on prices."

Otherwise known as downward adjustments in the CPI for hedonics, quality change, intervention analysis using geometric weighting.
7 posted on 04/13/2011 11:28:55 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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I am shocked!/s


9 posted on 04/13/2011 2:58:48 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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wait until the price of gasoline is factored in. We will be hitting 20% by christmas


10 posted on 04/14/2011 7:33:16 AM PDT by unseen1
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bttt


11 posted on 04/16/2011 12:05:13 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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