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51Sainsbury's — Infobox Company company name = J Sainsbury plc company company type = Public (lse|SBRY) foundation = 1869 location = Holborn Circus, London, England key people = Justin King, CEO Philip Hampton, Chairman industry = Retail (Grocery) products =… …
52Effects of 2000s energy crisis — There is debate over what the effects of the 2000s energy crisis will be over the long term. Some speculate that an oil price spike could create a recession comparable to those that followed the 1973 and 1979 energy crises or a potentially worse… …
53Retail Price Index — The measure of the rate of inflation in the United Kingdom, the Retail Price Index calculates the cost of buying a standard basket of goods and expresses this as a percentage of the base year index. For example, when the base year is 100 and the… …
54Chained dollars — is a method of adjusting real dollar amounts for inflation over time, so as to allow comparison of figures from different years.[1] The U.S. Department of Commerce introduced the chained dollar measure in 1996. Chained dollars generally reflect… …
55Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) — A measure that examines the changes in the price of a basket of goods and services purchased by urban consumers. The urban consumer population is deemed by many as a better representative measure of the general public because most of the country… …
56Gross National Product (GNP) Deflator — An economic metric that accounts for the effects of inflation in the current year s gross national product by converting its output to a level relative to a base period. The GNP deflator is calculated with the following formula: The GNP deflator… …
57Personal Consumption Expenditures - PCE — A measure of price changes in consumer goods and services. Personal consumption expenditures consist of the actual and imputed expenditures of households; the measure includes data pertaining to durables, non durables and services. It is… …
58consumer — early 15c., one who squanders or wastes, agent noun from CONSUME (Cf. consume). In economic sense, one who uses up goods or articles (opposite of producer) from 1745. Consumer goods is attested from 1890. In U.S., consumer price index calculated… …
59price index — noun an index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time • Syn: ↑price level • Hypernyms: ↑index, ↑index number, ↑indicant, ↑indicator • Hyponyms: ↑ …
60Quark (cheese) — For other uses, see Quark (disambiguation). Polish twaróg in the traditional wedge shape …
