Saturday, May 07, 2011

Unit 2: How inflation is measured

Although this is US data, it is for CPI and so should be similar for the UK

http://flowingdata.com/2011/04/27/how-much-more-we-pay-for-stuff-now-than-we-did-last-year/

a) Why was US inflation only 2.7% when gasoline went up 27.5%? Surely everybody buys petrol?

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