Is it R.I.P for RPI?

Jack Jones looks at the implication for schemes of the proliferation of inflation measures produced by the ONS

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Two developments at the Office for National Statistics this month suggest the retail prices index's days could be numbered.

First the organisation published a report stripping RPI of its status as a ‘national statistic' and second it published two new alternative indices for the first time. Both moves have stoked up a ...

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