they'll say this computer has twice that the processing capacity therefore is half as expensive the donica john and i talked about this and you were saying no we don't do that here what we use is a geometric mean so to metric means. is roughly the equivalent of how the u.k. government gets away with scamming the public by misreporting inflation geometric means is just a different way using to calculate the average change in prices but what it does mean is that the meet the price index you get with c.p.i. on average is about one percent lower than r.p.i. which is a big difference. for what is just a technical statistical change in the way you calculate it and it's very debatable over whether a geometric mean is the right way to calculate it would it be too much to say that it's being purposefully dishonest. you can say that. because there's not. any uses math geometric means to deceive you suckers thank so much for being on the thanks max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i'd like to thank our guests calmly author of inflat