The Consumer Price Index Overestimates Inflation Because It

question 8

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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