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Essay Galaxy - Inaccuracies of the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Inaccuracies of the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the prices of a fixed market
basket of some 300 consumer goods and services purchased by a "typical" urban
consumer. The 1982-1984 period serves as the base period so analysts can compare
other year's changes with this base period. The composition of the market
basket is fixed in the base period and is assumed not to change from one period
to another. The reason for the assumption is because the CPI measures the
costliness of a constant standard of living. Critics claim that the CPI is
inaccurate because it overstates the increases in the cost of living. For this
reason, the CPI has been said to be inaccurate.
First, consumers do change their spending patterns. Even though the
composition off the market basket is assumed not to ch....
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