Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Girl Scout Inflation Indicator

Girl Scouts are known for telling the truth, so we'll believe them when they say the cost or producing cookies increased 30% last year. That's why they're keeping the price of a box of cookies the same, but they're including fewer cookies:

Girl Scout Cookie prices

It seems the Girl Scouts are a little more honest about the rising cost of goods than the US Government is with its incessantly under-reported Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures.

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