Covid-19 Distorted Year-Over-Year Inflation Measures in Unprecedented Ways
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2 years ago
“Covid-19 Distorted Year-Over-Year Inflation”
Government distorted year over year inflation. It was governments that locked down their economies. Governments have created a huge mess.
“A peer reviewed study published in January by Stanford researchers found that mandatory lockdowns do not provide more benefits to stopping the spread of COVID-19 than voluntary measures such as social distancing.”
2 years ago
yoy inflation is one thing, but the month over month inflation in 2021 is astounding, suggesting annual inflation of 6 or 7%. It’s getting ugly.
2 years ago
RENT is in the inflation numbers, as it should be.
2 years ago
The Fed ignored the housing bubble with drastic impact 2005-2007 and they did it again. How is it you fail to see that?
As I said, if you do not like my measure of the CPI then just drop the C for PI. That’s what matters!
BTW I actually have it weighted. I only substituted Case-Shiller for OER, so I do have rent for renters.