paraphrase for me "Reading and looking at this discussion post has been extremely interesting, ig was showing all the years In the past and really explaining what and where the inflation comes from. there are a lot of things that are at a very high price that is caused from inflation. while looking at the tables it has shown that throughout the years the price of hamburgers and hot dogs has gone up by at least $1 every year. The bls is "When the BLS calculates the CPI and the inflation rate, it uses data on the prices of thousands of goods and services" it also says "The goal of the consumer price index is to measure changes in the cost of living. In other words, the CPI tries to gauge how much incomes must rise to maintain a constant standard of living. The CPI, however, is not a perfect measure of the cost of living. Three problems with the index are widely acknowledged but difficult to solve." back in the 1960 area it was shown that prices were a lot cheaper but that inflation was even going on at that time. The recession created all of the numbers to change at a crazy rate and not be able to stay the same