The article highlights an important problem in several countries, but I am skeptical economists don't know what is going on. The FED has is own sources and means, and any of the best well funded investment houses do their own due diligence.
It's not like retail or supermarket prices are confidential, and somebody with enough hours and three or four interns can't have a clear view of real inflation. Or with the appropriate contacts at the HR departments of the Top 500 corporations can't have a clear idea of current hiring and layoff trends, or buy data feeds on sales and forecasts in core vertical markets.
It's not like retail or supermarket prices are confidential, and somebody with enough hours and three or four interns can't have a clear view of real inflation. Or with the appropriate contacts at the HR departments of the Top 500 corporations can't have a clear idea of current hiring and layoff trends, or buy data feeds on sales and forecasts in core vertical markets.