QUESTION TO POWELL ABOUT IMPUTED (ESTIMATED) CPI DATA AFTER DOGE CUTS TO THE BLS Powell: "We have to make do with what we have but I certainly hope we get what we need." Background here:
Tracy Alloway
Tracy Alloway17.7.2025
My candidate for the most worrying economic chart in the world right now: the proportion of CPI data that's now being calculated (ie estimated) by different cell imputation (ie proxy). We've gone from 10% to 35% in just a few months Wrote about it here:
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