True or false? The arrival of new goods creates problems with respect to the accuracy of measuring inflation because new goods have always been immediately included in the inflation calculations.

False

Explanation:

Actually there is the problem of quality/new goods bias whereby

inflation calculation such as calculated using a fixed basket of goods over time may not actually or accurately reflect the cost of living/inflation and therefore tends to overstate the true rise or fall in cost of living because it does not take into account/immediately incorporate improvements in the quality of existing goods or the invention of new goods.

Explanation:

inflation calculated using a fixed basket of goods over time tends to overstate the true rise in cost of living because it does not take into account imporovements in the quality of existing goods or the invention of new goods

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.