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Igel

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6. Assuming that CPI is more accurate than chained CPI.

Reply to progree (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 10:53 PM

Oct 9

At some point they're asymptotic. I know that as the CPI went up my choices by price went down. Some there's (based on my narrow anecdotal evidence) that chained CPI isn't all wrong.

Put me in 1983 where everything was always at the lowest price, depending on the 'basket' of goods I was purchasing it would be pure CPI. (But there's that 'depending upon' bit.)

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