http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/08/02/prices-inflation-and-deflation-great-depression-vs-great-recession/ Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:18:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/08/02/prices-inflation-and-deflation-great-depression-vs-great-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-41584 Winston Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:33:53 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/?p=484#comment-41584 Once again, by using government figures, you are comparing apples and oranges because the methodology for the calculation of the CPI was significantly changed for self-serving reasons (i.e., the reduction of government entitlement program COLA costs) by The Boskin Commission in 1995 as revealed in the excellent book "Greenspan's Bubbles." Once again, by using government figures, you are comparing apples and oranges because the methodology for the calculation of the CPI was significantly changed for self-serving reasons (i.e., the reduction of government entitlement program COLA costs) by The Boskin Commission in 1995 as revealed in the excellent book “Greenspan’s Bubbles.”

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