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What's in Your Market Basket? Why Your Inflation Rate Might Differ from the Average

Does it feel like your dollars go as far as they used to? If not, how does that mesh when reports say inflation rates are lower than average? The October 2015 issue ofÂ Page One EconomicsÂ explains the disconnect between what you might experience as a consumer and what the data show.

Keywords:: Inflation, Deflation

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Business / Economics

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 11, 2020
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 11, 2020
Author:: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Submitter:: Adrienne Brennecke
Primary Audience:: Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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