Hip to Inflation Now
The New York Times every so often puts together a truly wonderful graphic, and today's illustration of what makes up the consumer price index is one of those every-so-often occasions. It is to pie charts what homemade lemon meringue pie is to those monstrosities that McDonald's passes off as apple "pies."
And it shows, in detail, the amount of work that goes into approximating the complex space of consumer spending in a large country into one dimension.
Labels: consumer price index, Excellent graphics, inflation, New York Times






