The consumer price index and national saving

Michael F. Bryan and Jagadeesh Gokhale

Economic Commentary, 1995, issue Oct

Abstract: An argument that lowering COLAs for Social Security benefits and adjusting the Consumer Price Index to better reflect the cost-of-living increases that result from inflation will alleviate two long-range problems: escalating federal budget deficits and exceedingly low national saving.

Keywords: Consumer price indexes; Saving and investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/frbc ... concomm_19951015.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:fedcec:y:1995:i:oct15

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic Commentary from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by 4D Library ().