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minus-squaremaplesaga@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI knew about them excluding shelter from the CPI in the late 80s, as Volcker raising rates was raising shelter inflation in a feed back loop, and this untethered the CPI from reality. I’d not heard about them goosing the unemployment numbers.
minus-squarehector@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI wish I had more sources handy for this, I have this though. https://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/numbers-racket/
I knew about them excluding shelter from the CPI in the late 80s, as Volcker raising rates was raising shelter inflation in a feed back loop, and this untethered the CPI from reality. I’d not heard about them goosing the unemployment numbers.
I wish I had more sources handy for this, I have this though.
https://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/numbers-racket/