PRICES & SPENDING • Oct 2017 • Volume 6 / Number 13
Arlington Memorial Bridge spans the decades as a study in long-term price change
This article examines the history of the Arlington Memorial Bridge and compares the original construction with a contemporary proposed rebuilding of it, which provides an interesting illustration of long-term price change in the United States, with the help of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.
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Nailing down the price of new nonresidential building construction: expanding the PPI to include indexes by region and type of contractor
In the early 2000s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Producer Price Index (PPI) program began developing price indexes to cover the new nonresidential construction segment of the U.S. economy.
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