2012-03-14
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quote 05:48:05
“ The super-rich index is made up of items that are, let’s say, different. A Russian sable coat at $240,000, a facelift for $18,500, a thoroughbred yearling racehorse at $319,340, a Sikorsky helicopter at $14.8m, an arrangement of flowers changed weekly for six rooms at $98,100 or a year’s tuition at Harvard at $52,652. It is, in a dark way, hilarious that a Harvard education counts as a luxury good. ”
John Lanchester: Why the super-rich love the UK in The Guardian.
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photo 05:33:06
The Office of National Statistics on the changes to the basket of goods (PDF) (as used to calculate inflation in the UK) (via)
2010-03-16
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quote 14:54:14
“ Garlic bread has about one-third of the market, compared with one-tenth for pitta bread, which it replaces in the ONS basket. ”
What the ONS tells us about trendspotting at the BBC News Magazine.
