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Governments would never agree to this. For example, in the U.S., The CPI drives so many parts of the budget (inflation indexed bonds, Social Security payments,
by keltex 16y ago
Governments would never agree to this. For example, in the U.S., The CPI drives so many parts of the budget (inflation indexed bonds, Social Security payments, real GNP vs nominal GNP, etc.) that they would never give control of this to an external party [/conspiracytheory]
- eru 16y agoAnd they do not need to "agree". Google can just collect the data, and display it for every one to us.
- treeface 16y agoI'm not sure where you get the idea that the government needs to agree with something in order for it to be published. The CPI published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is just one of quite a few price indexes, some of which are privately published.