The Bureau of Labor Statistics said it doesn’t maintain a list of “super users,” and an email last week addressed to that group regarding a key measure of rental inflation was “a mistake.” “The staff member was replying to multiple inquiries for information about the CPI for rent and OER,” Jeffrey Hill, associate commissioner at the BLS, said in a webinar Thursday. He was referring to owners’ equivalent rent, which was a large factor behind the robust reading of the January consumer price index. “To expedite a response, the employee blind-copied a number of requesters and referred to them as super users — this was a ... (full story)