17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Since the inflation rate on a dollar is flat across the board in our economy simple inflation does not account for this rise in prices in a niche market.
No. The COnsumer Price Index (the Bureau of Labor Statistics also puts out the Producer Price Index, but that is not as widely reported in the cartoon-news mass media), _is_ a single number, but only because it is _defined as_ a measure of central tendency of all the price rises. It is an artificial number. Each individual price rise, does swing freely.