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For July, “The index for shelter … accounted for nearly 90 percent of the [otherwise sleepy] monthly increase”

– by New Deal democrat The CPI for July continued all of the trends I have been writing about for the past year or more:  – Headline and core CPI continue to slowly decelerate.   – energy inflation is non-existent  – shelter inflation remains very elevated but continues to declerate, following house prices.  – all prices […]