By Amitabh Singh - Economic Times

Story date: 2008-05-17 03:18:00
Added on: 2008-05-17 17:10:51

Someone has aptly said that inflation is “taxation without legislation”. Inflation is manifested by increase in price of goods and services. Assuming a fixed income, an increase in price of goods and services that are consumed by us in our daily ...


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