Downsizing the CPI: Footnotes.

1. This is scaled down from still larger biases which it discerned earlier, because the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics), which prepares the CPI, has already changed the index to meet some of the criticisms. [BACK]
2. I have omitted the leading part of this sentence because the context is confusing. The BLS itself had "corrected" what it judged to be an upward bias in its index due to mandated safety and anti-pollution devices. The discussion among Boskin Commission members was whether this over-corrected, imparting a downward bias which their own estimate should remove. [BACK]