• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    1 year ago

    It’s the standard statistics about wages and price levels that we’ve been using for decades. I don’t see any evidence that they’re gamed, though I don’t doubt that there are some people for whom what you describe is true

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      1 year ago

      CPI for example likely isn’t being gamed, (I hope). There have been changes to the CPI so whoever made these does have the ability to push it into a certain direction. What I meant was, for a random fluff article I simply pick any of my favorite CPI categories and spin those to suit my main point.

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        1 year ago

        Which is why Krugman is using CPI, and not some random category. He’s smart enough to avoid that kind of pitfall.