Monetary Blog | FOMC Insight Engine · Feb 17, 2026
The Paradox: Simpson's Paradox in the labor market reveals a fifty-three-year pattern inside the Federal Reserve — where the choice of inflation average has never been neutral.
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A labor market analysis of 45.4 million job postings reveals Simpson's Paradox at work — and the same paradox has operated inside the Federal Reserve's treatment of inflation data for fifty-three years.
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