Fascinating analysis. What's in your commodity basket?
I'd guess that the basket makes all the difference. Standard GDP deflation goes out of its way have as broad a basket as possible, and generally uses methods designed to maximize perceived growth. For example, there's a growing gap between the US CPI and the US GDP deflator.
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