Financial Trend Forecaster's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

I want to know how a financial manager's position/job performance changes when the rate of inflation increases.

As inflation increases a financial manager generally must become more aggressive in finding investments that outpace inflation. If inflation is at 3.5% and your investments produce 5% your real rate of return is 1.5% however, if inflation is 6% and your return is 5% your real rate of return is a negative 1%. As inflation gets above 10% people generally begin to lose faith in the currency and seek alternatives such as another countries currency or physical assets like Real Estate.

How Do I Calculate Cost based upon inflation?

See  How Do I Calculate the Inflation Rate?  at InflationData.com or If you don't care about the mechanics and just want the answer, use the Inflation Calculator. Once you know the percentage of inflation you can multiply that percentage by a dollar amount from the original time period to determine how much the item would cost in the resulting time period.

Where Do I find Inflation rates for other countries?

Bank of Canada
UK Inflation Rates
New Zealand
Indonesia 
Norway
Italy (Italian)  (English translation)

More at International Inflation Links Page

If you know of others please Let Us Know the link and we will gladly add it here.

Where do I find Inflation rates by year?

It is available on our Historical Inflation Page  with each months' annual percentage rate. The rate for the whole year is called the AVE.

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