> possible overstatement of inflation
This has been the drum beat for well over two decades. Conservatives revised CPI and CPI markers to their liking in the mid 1990s with the Boskin commission. Yet if you look at inflation over the past two decades and see idle class heirs enriched and the workers creating the wealth stagnant, it's back to the old inflation-is-overstated argument. I mean, Trump is saying it this week in criticizing the Fed chair.
An odd counterpart to German conservative bankers, who seem more obsessed with low inflation and currency stability.