To What Extentis Inflation a serious Economic Problem.

... To What Extent is Inflation a serious Economic Problem Before considering whether Inflation has serious Economic Problems, we have to get to grasp what it exactly is. Inflation is defined as a sustained general rise in prices in the Economy. Obviously the government can't measure every single price change for every single good in the economy, so therefore they take a basket of goods and by using a price index measure a change in it. The basket of good has a representative range of goods and services and it needs to be recorded at a regular basis, to measure how inflation is changing. The UK government currently use the RPI (Retail Price Index) as a measure, which measures, in theory, each month, 150 000 prices for 600 items. Surveyors are sent out to a random set of households and measure it on the same day of each month to record a

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