It may work for a while, too but eventually gold will migrate into a reserve currency basket and its price will advance many times from its current level.
It's the price of a basket of goods and services that actually is typical of what no one person actually spends.
The shipping price on the basket varied every time I changed the combinations and tried multiple permutations of delivery options and services.
For the full year, the consultancy forecasts that weighted price of a basket of platinum group metals in the country will be above the weighed cash cost.
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There used to be clearly defined battle lines between pessimists like Mr Ehrlich and optimists like Julian Simon (an economist who bet Mr Ehrlich that the inflation-adjusted price of a basket of commodities would not rise over time because of growing populations).
This month Target had lower prices than Wal-Mart for the first time since October, according to research conducted by Bloomberg Industries, which examined the gap in average price across a basket of 150 like items at stores within five miles of each other.
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The Big Mac Index uses Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in comparing the price of the ubiquitous Big Mac across countries relative to its price in the USA. PPP refers to the idea that exchange rates across two countries should be equal to the relative price of a basket of goods and services in both countries.
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The price of the standard basket of staples, the cesta basica, rose by almost 5% in the first three weeks of February.
The size of the commodity basket will result in its aggregate price being relatively insulated from disruptions in the price of a given commodity.
Examine the market basket of goods or services they purchase over a six-to-twelve-month period and then calculate the margin on each basket, keeping track of discounts and price concessions.
While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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When a product's price spikes, INDEC takes it out of the CPI basket.
If the U.S. economy continues to slow into the first quarter of 2013, and if Europe remains a basket case next year, then oil demand will be stable and price rises will largely depend on Asian demand and the usual Middle Eastern drama pitting Tel Aviv against Tehran.
The CCI is a basket of 17 major raw commodity futures prices rolled into one composite index price.
During that period, the Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change in prices over time for a basket of consumer goods and services, grew at a 3% annualized clip.
Finally, there is a future danger to price stability as corporations begin to put all of their manufacturing eggs in the Chinese basket.
The Consumer Price Index program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
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