Mutual funds? inflation and measures to control it? equity? can anybody please tell me about these..?

i mean if you say inflation is at 7% now.. how is it measured?.. how does it affect the people? how does it influence a countries relations with another country? what are mutual funds? how does one read the stock market columns in the paper... i honsetly do not know much.. but would like to learn.. so for starters if somebody could tell me a little about these... id be grateful. thanks.Mutual funds? inflation and measures to control it? equity? can anybody please tell me about these..?
Yahoo finance has tons of info as does money.com or cnbc.com or daveramsey.com.





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