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> The caveat is that you must agree with how your govt. calculates inflation. This is an easy caveat to make as there are many other parts depending on how the
by prepend 5y ago
> The caveat is that you must agree with how your govt. calculates inflation.
This is an easy caveat to make as there are many other parts depending on how the US government calculates inflation.
And there aren’t alternate inflation calculations out there, and certainly no consumer financial instruments pegged to them.
For all its flaws, it’s the best we have. I think it’s not discussed because it’s such a sunk risk that it’s not really anything that would change someone’s mind.
- bzxcvbn 5y ago> there aren’t alternate inflation calculations But there are. Institutions such as the IMF also have their own economic measurements.
- everybodyknows 5y ago> there aren’t alternate inflation calculations There are several. CPI-U, CPI-W: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/overview.htm https://www.bls.gov/cpi/overview.htm PCE deflators: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categorie https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categorie s/21