http://visualizingeconomics.com/2009/08/02/prices-inflation-and-deflation-great-depression-vs-great-recession/ Mon, 21 May 2012 17:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://visualizingeconomics.com/2009/08/02/prices-inflation-and-deflation-great-depression-vs-great-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-675 Winston Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:33:53 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/?p=484#comment-675 Once again, by using government figures, you are comparing apples and oranges because the methodology for the calculation of the CPI was significantly changed for self-serving reasons (i.e., the reduction of government entitlement program COLA costs) by The Boskin Commission in 1995 as revealed in the excellent book "Greenspan's Bubbles." Once again, by using government figures, you are comparing apples and oranges because the methodology for the calculation of the CPI was significantly changed for self-serving reasons (i.e., the reduction of government entitlement program COLA costs) by The Boskin Commission in 1995 as revealed in the excellent book “Greenspan’s Bubbles.”

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