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What Causes Inflation?

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How Much Does a Basket of Goods Cost?

In 1982 the baseline figure was set which was the consumer price index is a hundred yeah in 2006 it hit 200 in April 2006 which Basically at that point they should have said they should have just reset it and said we have a new base year Yeah, because we doubled it and they didn't know they just sort of left it I don't know in 1982 it seems like a Maybe they're just used to that math it seems like it would be a lot of extra math.

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