Economy
Base year indexing anchors reality to an arbitrary past
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
To figure out if things are getting more expensive, economists basically pick a random year in the past and pretend it was perfectly normal. Base year indexing sets a historical point at a clean value of 100, forcing all current economic data to be measured against that single frozen moment in time. It is a mathematical nostalgia trip.
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