[lbo-talk] Shadowstats (warning: data geekery)

Shane Taylor shane.taylor at verizon.net
Sun Sep 14 19:27:43 PDT 2008


[James Hamilton writes:]

September 04, 2008 Shadowstats debunked

I've yet to find someone who has been able to reproduce the claims made by Shadow Government Statistics about the extent to which government agencies are grossly misreporting the U.S. inflation rate. Apparently, neither has the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as detailed in an article by BLS economists John Greenlees and Robert McClelland in the latest issue of Monthly Labor Review.

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<http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/09/shadowstats_deb.html>



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