> ShadowStats Just no: > Responding to prior criticisms made by economist James Hamilton, John Williams explained in a private phone call that Shadowstats doe

> ShadowStats Just no: > Responding to prior criticisms made by economist James Hamilton, John Williams explained in a private phone call that Shadowstats does not actually recalculate BLS data, rather, the Shadowstats CPI merely adds a constant to the officially reported numbers.[28] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com#Negative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com#Negative SHADOWSTATS(t) = 1.9 + 0.0055*t + CPIAUCNS(t) * https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3zik5t/shadowstatscom/ https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3zik5t/shadow... * https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/no-the-real-inflation-rate-isnt-14-percent https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/no-the-real-inflation-r... > Truflation * https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/1beg6db/how_reliable_is_truflation_and_are_there_any_real/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/1beg6db/how_r... > Billion Prices They actually published code so other folks could recreate: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project