Kaplan compare the returns of private equity and venture capital funds with those of various stock indexes.

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Foreclosures are picking up again, he said, and the various bank stock indexes are making lower highs and higher lows on technical charts.

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The Household Survey is used to calculate the various employment and unemployment indexes and rates.

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But we do have official statistics on these things, price indexes weighted to reflect the importance of various items in our budgets.

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