interested to know what people's opinions are on how interested (i.e. CPI) is calculated today versus how it was calculated pre-1990
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
> Shadowstats does not actually recalculate BLS data, rather, the Shadowstats CPI merely adds a constant to the officially reported numbers
This doesn’t inspire much confidence in his alternate CPI.
MIT’s billion prices project is much more novel and interesting. They track prices from online goods in real-time to calculate price inflation. You can see some of the stats posted at https://www.pricestats.com