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Explaining the inflation rate
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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People really need to know what "rate" means.
Or we should switch to talking about affordability indices rather than inflation. Inflation isn't a particularly informative figure for most people. What people really care about is the purchasing power of their income, not what the change in dollar value is.