Heat is a wine killer. Temperatures over 70 degrees for a significant amount of time can permanently taint the flavor of wine. Above 80 degrees or so and you are literally starting to cook the wine. Wine heat damage tastes unpleasantly sour and jammyâ¦sort of like canned prunes.
US Economy. Definition: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a monthly measurement of U.S. prices for most household goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surveys the prices of 80,000 consumer items to create the index. It represents the prices of a cross-section of goods and services commonly bought by primarily urban households.
The consumer price index is a way of tracking the change in prices of goods that urban consumers are paying over time. A consumer price index (CPI) measures changes in the price level of consumer goods and services. It is a a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.