Talk:United States Chained Consumer Price Index

Some issues resolved, but needs some expert input
The article does does not presently define the term that the page purports to explain. Please, someone, help make it understandable and relevant! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.165.56.246 (talk) 03:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I added a link from the main CPI article to remove the orphan status, added wikilinks within the article, and worked on the formatting, but I did not change any content. I am not an expert on the subject matter, but it does appear that there are some possible bias issues that should be addressed by someone with more relevant subject matter knowledge. PohranicniStraze (talk) 18:00, 8 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm not an expert, but I took a shot at at least defining how it's calculated in plain English. I doubt I succeeded, but it's a start.  --j⚛e deckertalk 04:04, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Inaccurate citation for CBPP allegedly supporting chained CPI
Since this is a currently controversial topic and I haven't edited wikipedia recently, I want to post this here for discussion rather than immediately changing it, but it needs to be fixed. The second paragraph starts: "Proponents of the chained CPI include the Washington Post Editorial Board[2] the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget,[3] the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities,[4] and the Heritage Foundation [5] and ..." Well I read reference [4] which currently points to a Heritage Foundation blog and I could not find any citation there supporting the statement that Center for Budget and Policy Priorities supports chained cpi. They very well might, but if so it needs a correct citation. MoxRox (talk) 16:43, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Methodology
I deleted the separate section on "Methodology" primarily because the BLS references I read conflicted with the claims in this section, which referenced a macroeconomics text. The Wikipedia article on United States Consumer Price Index includes more discussion of methodology with more links.

Secondarily, I added comments on methodology earlier in the article.

I am not an economist, but I believe all the changes I made were solidly grounded in the references I cited. If anyone has problems with any of the current text, please cite sources so a competent researcher can verify the claims. Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 21:24, 13 April 2013 (UTC)