Re: Salon: SS Reform: "Bush's Dirty Little Secret"

From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:01:42 GMT

"Courageous" <dontwant@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:54:02 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
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>>(Right now there's supposedly a large divergence between renting costs and
>>buying costs, due to the claimed housing bubble.)
>
> Well, if you look around, you'll find that economists are questioning
> OER in the CPI; in particular it plays a large roll in the CPI, so if
> costs are wrongly imputed, then the whole CPI will be out of whack.

I completely agree. I just want to know the details of why Roy thinks OER
is computed wrong. And I certainly don't suspect it's computed correctly.

(When you write "economists are questing OER in the CPI, do you mean whether
it should be there, or how accurately it's computed?)

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> C//
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