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ipaddryesterday at 11:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

You can't account for inflation because the price increase is inflation.


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pastoday at 12:24 AM

you can look at a basket of goods that doesn't have your specific product and compare directly

but inflation is the general price level increase, this can be used as a deflator to get the price of whatever product in past/future money amount to see how the price of the product changed in "real" terms (ie. relative to the general price level change)

simianwordsyesterday at 11:38 PM

this is not true