Yah - I guess what I am saying is that in order to write the, "factor X is worse than we thought" article - you need to know what factor X was before. So really

Yah - I guess what I am saying is that in order to write the, "factor X is worse than we thought" article - you need to know what factor X was before. So really...people who do this work must have a set of coefficients that go into their models. I don't think it's fair to expect popular reporting like this to cover every factor...but I think we could do a better job of sharing the most recent set.