Calculate the Rate of Increase for Both CPI and S&P
Explore how to calculate and compare the compound annual growth rates (CAGR) of CPI, employment wages, and the S&P 500 over 20 years. Understand the relevance and limitations of CAGR in financial and economic data, and practice implementing these calculations using Python in a Jupyter notebook environment to gain practical data analytics skills.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
These graphs have some interesting overlaps and we could practice our historical contextualization skills to hypothesize the events that caused them. But, for the purposes of this course, let’s focus on one specific insight: how do the Compound Annual Growth Rates (CAGR) compare between our three ...