To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

Inflation is one of the most important ways the economy impacts consumers. During periods of high inflation, money simply doesn’t go as far, so people need to watch their budgets more carefully. One ...

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Rising inflation has inundated headlines over the past year, with prices hitting record highs. The latest Consumer Price Index figure, released by the Labor Department last week, showed that annual ...