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Tuesday, 20 January 2009

New Cost of Living Index

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: In my opinion, there is little space for thenprice of the necessities such as food falling down. But, as we can see from the table, the prices of most goods remain the same while others suffered a gentle decline.; 20 January 2009 at 14:20
Justintime said...: It looks good.; 20 January 2009 at 17:07
Anonymous said...: during the deflation why there was not a decline in the cost of living? In my opinion, first of all the influence of deflation takes time to pass on to all the consumers. secondly, although there is a deflation but demand for some necessities wont change much; 20 January 2009 at 17:37
Luna said...: Under the food category, bananas have increased by the biggest percentage, nearly doubled. I guess that's because of the weakening in sterling and that most bananas in the UK are imported from other tropical countries.; 20 January 2009 at 17:51
Nicky said...: I have read it; 20 January 2009 at 21:41
E. Vicente said...: read it; 21 January 2009 at 17:39
Anonymous said...: a little increase in each part, will be a big increase in total. big force to households; 22 January 2009 at 09:29
chaoya zhuang said...: for the weekly shopping, the demand of the most things have not changed a lot, but for fresh british beef mince which is not the necessity, the demand has go down 18.8 per cent, which is a big amount.; 22 January 2009 at 10:03
Alex Byun the POK said...: Got it; 23 January 2009 at 15:41

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