American statisticians have adopted techniques for adjusting for quality improvements when calculating price deflators for computers.
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Assuming no upward revisions on July 28, the monthly deflators would need to stay at 0.2% through December, the same pace as January-May.
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Using this new lower spending base for 2010-11 and applying the official Treasury deflators, spending will be back just above the 2009-10 level in 2014-15 - but by only a 0.1% real increase.
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