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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

A reminiscence that may be relevant to the jobs number: Back in the late 1980s there was a big puzzle about US import prices. The dollar had fallen sharply, but import prices hadn't gone up. There were many, many papers trying to explain why 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 7, 2021

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What we eventually learned was that it was a data artifact: hedonic indices for some imports were overdoing the quality adjustment. Actual import price behavior wasn't especially weird 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 7, 2021