Rich Toscano wrote:jstoesz

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[quote=Rich Toscano][quote=jstoesz]I saw an inflation calculation out of Stanford or Harvard not to long ago that used amazon prices or some such thing to determine inflation. Does anyone know what I am talking about? It obviously did not jive with the gov stats, but nothing seems to in my reading. Government stats always land on the conservative side, by design I suppose. Hasn’t the inflation formula changed a couple dozen times since Nixon killed the last vestiges of the gold standard?[/quote]

You are probably thinking of this: http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/

Seems they haven’t updated it since Jan. Looks like maybe they are switching over to a pay model or something?[/quote]

Thats it Rich, thanks. To bad it hasn’t been updated in a while, and who know if it is worth the bytes it is written on.

I remember the curves diverging a bit more. I probably saw it during the fall of 2010 when the two curves were somewhat divergent.