The author claimed the famous pilot survived a Pacific Ocean plane crash and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. At the end of World War II, U.S. forces purportedly found her in Japan and secretly repatriated her to New Jersey. There, Earhart took the name Irene Bolam and became a banker.
What is the Producer Price Index (PPI)? The Producer Price Index represents a family of indices that measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
Other widely used price indices for calculating price inflation include the following: 1  Producer price indices (PPIs) which measures average changes in prices received by domestic producers for their output. 2  Commodity price indices, which measure the price of a selection of commodities.