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throw0101a 6 days ago

> 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

    SHADOWSTATS(t) = 1.9 + 0.0055*t + CPIAUCNS(t)
* https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3zik5t/shadow...

* https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/no-the-real-inflation-r...

> Truflation

* 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