David Lavie is a writer and editor with two decades' experience in marketing communications, equity research and publishing. He is a founding partner in Quartet Communications, where, as Head of ...

What is your personal rate of inflation? It’s probably different than the rate that gets reported by Statistics Canada every month. Generally speaking, when people refer to the inflation rate, they’re ...

CPI inflation, you must have heard about this term alot of times, today let’s just unfold this term and understand what exactly is CPI, why is it important and how do we calculate it? The Consumer ...

First, let’s look at the formal definition of the Consumer Price Index. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI is “a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban ...