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What's the policy conclusion? What data DOES Cass wish to see collected?

Here are three:

1) Disaggregated WAGE indexes. [What BLS publics is disaggregated remuneration unit value indexes whihc means we never know whether a movement represents a change in wages o entry/exit of people earning different wages from the group being reported on.]

2) TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) in more shorter tenors. We have 5-year and 10-year TIPS which can show expectation of inflation over those periods, but not 1, 2, and 3 year periods.

3) Trillionths, Treasury securities that pay a multiple of one trillionth of the GDP (about $29) in the future. The traded prices of this security would show market expectations of nominal economic growth and combined with TIPS would indicate expectations of real growth.

[https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/improvements-in-macroeconomic-data]

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