This reminds me of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/business/economy/labor-statistics-super-users.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/business/economy/lab

This reminds me of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/business/economy/labor-statistics-super-users.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/business/economy/labor-st... Apparently BLS has a semi-private email group where they discuss the algorithm used to determine the inflation numbers. When tweaks to the underlying algorithm were planned, people in this select group were notified when the general public was not. The actual inflation numbers were not shared though, doing so would be illegal.