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[–] doylio@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy that they change the weights on these indexes. How are you supposed to get an accurate inflation number if you keep moving the goal posts

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is a good point. But given the importance of the decisions that get driven off these numbers, I think it is more important that they be meaningful.

In some ways, it makes it a more useful historical measure as well as you can have a greater confidence that the number reflects the pressure inflation was placing on people at the time.