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126: 2023 Housing Market Forecast: “Things Are Going to Be Messed Up” w/J Scott and Scott Trench

On The Market

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How to Get to 2% Inflation

Jay Powell is an attorney, not an economist and that says something right there. We need just one CPI number that all it factors in is the cost of skittles. Strip everything else out. That's what the people care about. I mean, a concern is that if the Fed is so fixated on this 2% inflation rate, which nobody really wants inflation except I guess if you own assets, then it inflates, it's good for you. But there's this 2% like where did that come from?

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