The Consumer Price Index Overestimates Inflation Because It

question 18

Multiple Choice

The consumer price index overestimates inflation because it

• A)Compares prices of what consumers actually buy rather than a fixed basket of goods
• B)Allows consumers to move along a given indifference curve from one year to the next
• C)Measures the cost of a market basket in the second year that has too many units of the most inflated items
• D)Uses the second year's market basket as the base rather than the first year's basket

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