--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] > > > > There are a number of "relevant" inflation indexes. Many economiss > > don't favor the CPI. Other indexes may give different answers. > > > > =============== > > > Inflation indexes are stupid.
Not stupid, but not relevant for all things. > They don't reflect any reality for people > who live paycheck to paycheck. If you want a cost-of-living index, you > would examine the prices of those items that are REQUIRED for living > and do an index on only those. yes. Exactly. And yo can do that - to a degree, suing the link I posted the follow-up posts. I constructed a mind/body services index, at a first stab at someting relevant to measure TM prices over time. No-one does this that I have heard. > > Is there a "poverty-level inflaction index?" Never heard of one. There are all sorts of indexes out there. Not ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
