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Showing posts with label rising. Show all posts

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.