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Excellent column. Last graf is incisive, and "fossil statistic" is a keeper of a concept.
... news organizations should stop playing up estimates of annual inflation excluding food and energy. Once upon a time, this was a useful number, but at this point it’s a relic, a legacy of a bygone age. And putting that fossil statistic in a story’s lede ends up misleading readers rather than informing them.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/business/may-consumer-price-index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/opinion/core-inflation-statistics.html