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+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=So to sum it up: he is not wrong.
+I think what I said to him is that after the 1950s, [[Inflation|inflation]] became a modern tool/weapon rather than a measurement starting with the [[Price Statistics Review Committee (Stigler Commission)|Stigler Commisson]]. I explained my view that the @BLS_gov is a quiet version of the @federalreserve. An insanely powerful “Statistics” organization where economists actually implement policy by simply chosing how to compute economic numbers.
+Numbers that just so happen to automatically transfer trillions and touch every aspect of our lives.
+He already knew a lot of the [[Boskin Commission|Boskin]]/[[Gauge Theory|GaugeTheory]] story from Harvard. Less about [[George Stigler|Stigler]] if I remember correctly.
+I’d love to ask Larry about all this now.
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+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1990530011191992536
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=I believe [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] is referring implicitly to the “[[Price Statistics Review Committee (Stigler Commission)|Stigler Commission]]” of 1959-1961.
+This comes from a phone conversation around 2004.
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+|name=noah kulwin
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/nkulw
+|username=nkulw
+|content=“inflation is a concept from the 50s” what did he mean…
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+|timestamp=5:14 AM · Nov 12, 2025
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+|timestamp=9:18 PM · Nov 17, 2025
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+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1990530014107107416
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=In a telephone conversation around 2004, he somehow was already well aware of the [[Boskin Commission|1996 Boskin Commission]] and Harvard Economics department burying our work on [[Gauge Theory]] in economics called “[[Geometric Marginalism]]”. That seemed pretty weird at the time.
+With the benefit of hindsight and scrutiny, I now understand that he was connected to AT LEAST two of my colleagues from my time as an Economist in the @HarvardEcon department and @nber. To say nothing of the fact that he was connected to AT LEAST two more of colleagues from my time as an math graduate student in the @HarvardMath department. He was evidently in the background of *everywhere* I was over three and a half decades from 1985-2019. It’s astounding.
+I believe from memory what he means is the following:
+In the 1950s inflation was not yet the tool of policy that it became after the [[Price Statistics Review Committee (Stigler Commission)|“Price Statistics Review Committee”]] around 1960, and the indexing of Social Security to [[CPI]] in the mid 1970s. It was a simple gauge.
+After that time, it became a quiet tool. And a weapon. You could use it to transfer not billions…but trillions. Why? Because a GIANT amount of all U.S. Federal receipts are indexed.
+He thought it was funny that we expected our work to be heard given that trillions were being stolen.
+I hope that there is a transcript of this conversation as well as the gravity phone calls about [[Theory of Geometric Unity|GU]]. If so, it will likely point back to Litauer and Rosovsky, Jorgenson and Summers.
+|timestamp=9:18 PM · Nov 17, 2025
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+|timestamp=9:38 PM · Nov 17, 2025
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