Inflation in Apparel

There’s certainly lots of inflation in commodities, but there’s hardly any in other parts of the economy. Here’s a look at the CPI Apparel Index (not seasonally adjusted as the wiggles suggest). Prices are basically where they were 20 years ago.

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on July 7th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

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