They say the changes could slow increases in car prices, by allowing dealers to cut costs sharply by keeping fewer cars on hand.
When growth is slow, increases in government spending can play an important role in taking the place of private demand, they say.
The constant, if slow, increases shown in the United States since the economy hit bottom in 2009 have not been matched in any of the other countries.
These cases may seem exceedingly rare, but surveys by the Consumer Product Safety Commission showed that the number of emergency-room admissions related to yoga, after years of slow increases, was rising quickly.
The new method of calculating inflation would slow increases in some government benefits, especially Social Security, but it would also slow the annual rise in tax brackets, pushing some people into higher tax brackets faster as their incomes rise faster than the brackets rise.
Some patients have slow increases in creatinine late in life and can be maintained on lithium on lower doses while other patients have severe increases in creatinine with decreases in kidney function that are progressive even after lithium is discontinued.
