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Ep. 72: Chapwood Index vs CPI – Which is the Better Inflation Index?

Cents and Sensibility: the Inflation Guy Podcast

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The Chat Point Index and the Shadow Stats

"It's simply not reasonable to say that the CPI is far off in how it measures inflation," he says. "You can make some very simple arguments that are compelling because we have a long time series" The BLS has 80,000 items in its consumption basket; Chat point looks at just 500 of them.

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