cost-of-living Archives

What Does Our Well-Being Cost?

Through new well-being metrics, we can see alternative criteria to which policy makers can respond after the GDP.

What the CPI Is Hiding

A Consumer Price Index (CPI) that went up by just .6 percent during the past year hides a much larger increase in some grocery prices.

Macroeconomic Measurement

How Covid-19 Affects the Cost of Living

Because a Covid-19 basket of goods and services has a different inflation rate from the CPI basket, the cost of living might not be what we think it is.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and street names

Transportation

Where It Costs the Most and Least to Live

While we see similar tastes and shopping patterns in the world’s most expensive cities, the reasons for a high and low cost of living vary.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and cost of living in expensive cities

Households

The World’s Most Expensive Bread

More than a number, the cost of living in the world’s most expensive cities is about bread and wine and who can afford to stay.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: From Data Spies to Ivory Trackers

Our economic news summary ranges from elasticity and a Berkeley soda tax to the minimum wage and the cost of living, to the power of the market and ivory.

Business

Why the Same Minimum Wage is Really Different

Comparing median and minimum wage and looking at how the cost of living varies, we can see that the wisdom of a $15 minimum wage hike depends on location.