Book request

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To anyone's knowledge, is there a good book out there (or perhaps blog source) that gives a comprehensive discussion of the controversial adjustments that the US government applies and historical changes that have been made to the various economic datasets it tracks. E.g. the NFP birth/death adjustment, CPI hedonic adjustment, the emphasis of core CPI over long periods of time, etc. I know that there are blog posts that criticize each of these things and tracking that down isn't difficult, but I'm more interested in a) perhaps a more balanced argument and b) what other adjustments I might not be aware of.

 

Thanks

 

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The closest thing I can think of is this:

 

http://www.shadowstats.com/

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Related: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/birthdeath-adjustment-was-responsible-over-50-payroll-gains-past-year