So is the cost of everything else: a basket of groceries, an automobile, tuition, healthcare, rent, an hour of labor, and so on.
Is there a common denominator here? Yes: the declining purchasing power of the dollar. And the purchasing power is declining because the government keeps putting into circulation more dollars than is justified by the nation's output of goods and services.
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