(According to estimates from the Boskin commission, changes in the CPI reduced the overstatement by about 0.3 percentage points).
(According to estimates from the Boskin commission, changes in the CPI reduced the overstatement by about 0.3 percentage points.) In other words, when there was a political reason to claim the CPI was overstated, "all economists" were willing to rise to the occasion.
In his annual testimony before the committee on threats facing the United States, Mr. Tenet found himself drawn again into the dispute over whether intelligence agencies or policy makers were more to blame for misjudgments and overstatements about Iraq and whether Baghdad had ties to terrorism.
Moreover, as the same population geneticist pointed out in the interview, since samples used with Structure are usually aimed at selecting for difference, conclusions that are drawn about genetic differences between populations nearly always contain overstatements about these relations.
The claim joins a growing list of overstatements about Kirk's military career.
AGL, the owner of Atlanta's natural gas utility, said its part of the overstatement was about $14 million, of which about two-thirds would come in its fiscal year ending next month.
That provides a neat receptacle for any blame.Although at least one senior intelligence officer complained about overstatement (and then about the government's assertion that there was no discontent) the top spooks seem to have swallowed any doubts.
More than three years after concluding that the Consumer Price Index overstated inflation by 1.1 percentage points a year, a group of prominent economists says changes made to the index since then have narrowed the overstatement to about eight-tenths of a percentage point a year.
Is Said to Be More Accurate More than three years after concluding that the Consumer Price Index overstated inflation by 1.1 percentage points a year, economists say changes made to the index have narrowed the overstatement to about 0.8 of a percentage point a year.
If you think that's an overstatement, think about it again next time you're posing naked for the TSA, and ask yourself how that came about.
