One of the Widely-Acknowledged Problems with the Consumer Price Index

question 202

Multiple Choice

One of the widely-acknowledged problems with the consumer price index (CPI) as a measure of the cost of living is that the CPI

• A) fails to account for consumer spending on housing.
• B) accounts only for consumer spending on food, clothing, and energy.
• C) fails to account for the fact that consumers spend larger percentages of their incomes on some goods and smaller percentages of their incomes on other goods.
• D) fails to account for the introduction of new goods.

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