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by jbay808 1431 days ago
Gas is pulling up the CPI right now, but it's always volatile. Shelter is slow, strongly linked to monetary policy, and the highest-weighted component in the CPI basket, and it's up 5.6% YoY, with a lot of inertia to keep growing. That suggests to me, in a back-of-a-napkin way, that about half of the current inflation is due to monetary policy.
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Shelter tracks CPI less energy pretty closely, especially during the recent surge: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=RJqZ