One of the Widely Acknowledged Problems with Using the Consumer

question 147

Multiple Choice

One of the widely acknowledged problems with using the consumer price index 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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