Mainstream economists and others speak of the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation. Yet, the CPI is nothing more ...

If you’ve been paying even passing attention to inflation—and it has been hard to ignore—you know that the latest inflation readings have been ugly. Through August 2022, the Consumer Price Index ...

Inflation is the increase in the monthly price of a basket of consumer goods and services and it is tracked and calculated by two different bureaus of the US government. Learn the two ways inflation ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

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