Where Your Cash Goes
Greetings from lovely (dreary and overcast) Blacksburg, Virginia. The Burg is known as the home of the Virginia Tech Hokies. I'm currently leading a project to help fit a fraternity house with a 10 kW wind turbine with the assistance of the house owner, making it one of the first green fraternity houses in the nation and perhaps even the world. While I am up here, I do like to check the news and came upon a feature of the The New York Times about inflation for all sorts of goods. The Times used data from the Consumer Price Index (collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) to create a detailed graph that shows you what Americans are spending their money on. It also shows you what products/sectors are increasing or decreasing in price. Its pretty cool, you can find it here.