Ep. 72: Chapwood Index vs CPI – Which is the Better Inflation Index?
Cents and Sensibility: the Inflation Guy Podcast
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The Importance of Housing Inflation
The BLS and most major statistical agencies around the world used mortgage rates to measure the cost of homeownership. But one of the big problems is that if you include the cost of a mortgage, then as inflation goes up and interest rates go up, you're kind of double counting. Every time the Fed hikes, they're going to raise inflation because a mortgage rate will go up. There's a whole lot of practical reasons you wouldn't want to refer to mortgages.
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