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|content=We should talk about national security and the Money Supply even before we talk about national security and crypto. | |||
We should talk about '''CPI inflation #s''' and index number methodology at @BLS_gov before we talk about crypto threats. | |||
M2 monetary aggregate from the St Louis Fed: | |||
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|content=Bottom line: '''C-CPI-U''' ISN’T understood by economists & is waiting to replace '''CPI-U'''. Why? To raise indexed taxes & slash indexed Medicare and Social Security. Think! | |||
'''CPI''' just isn’t a number. It’s supposed to be a field on a path space of loops. | |||
Cc: @haralduhlig @GregWKaplan | |||
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|content=This is what happens at BLS when we pretend work on '''CPI''' and geometric index numbers never happened. A geometric dictionary: | |||
Circularity = Loop Space | |||
“Levels of Drift” = Non-Trivial Holonomy from Curvature Effects | |||
Tests = Imposition of Flatness DESPITE Ambrose-Singer Theorem(!) | |||
https://x.com/jondavidchurch/jondavidchurch/status/1476336364606136320 | |||
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|content=Dictionary Continued: | |||
Strong Seasonality = We aren’t modeling instantaneous preference based expenditures, tastes and prices as maps of S^1 into relevant spaces. | |||
Choice of Base Month = If we don’t use S^1, It’s as if we suddenly love Eggnog every December, but Bikinis in June. | |||
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