Let me tell you what some other people say, though: 1  The EWGâs Skin Deep Database lists it as a 5-6 (or moderate hazard), but trying to find the studies they used for their rating proved difficult, and the ones I did find were the nebulous âborax or boric acidâ test studies.
1 This is so because, my nominal wages have increased by 10% while the average price level (CPI) has increased by only 5%. 2  Thus today (in 2010) with my higher nominal wage ($1100.00) I can buy more than I could buy last year.
A sustained rise in prices is known as inflation. A large rise in prices / higher inflation rate is often caused by economic growth. However, there are also occasions, when we can get inflation despite weak or negative economic growth. Typically, higher inflation is caused by strong economic growth. If Aggregate Demand in an economy expanded faster than aggregate supply, we would expect to see a higher inflation rate. If demand is rising faster than supply this suggests that economic growth is higher than the long run sustainable rate of growth.