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This document discusses measuring the cost of living over time using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). There are three key points: 1. CPI tracks changes in consumer prices and inflation over time. It allows comparison of purchasing power across periods by expressing income levels in terms of a base year. 2. CPI is calculated based on the prices of goods and services in a fixed market basket, though this leads to problems like substitution bias. 3. CPI is preferred over GDP deflator for measuring inflatio
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