Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Alternative Consumer Price Index

This price index developed by MIT provides an interesting alternative to the the US government's Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. Check out the steepening slope over the last four months. Amounts to about 8% annualized.

Which is ~3x the increase suggested by official government stats.

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