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Eric Basmajian: An Update On The Four Stages of An Economic Slowdown

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Rent CPI Index Is Constructed by Smart People, Right?

The CPI is constructed by very smart people, and my honest opinion is they do the best job they can to represent the inflation rate for average person. But when we look at real-time rents from things like Zillow or apartment list, we can see that rents are actually starting to fall now. And it's a really, really difficult balance that they're trying to thread here. I'm not sure that it's going to end well because they're just going to be tightening for areally, really long time beyond what they need.

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