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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: SeaViewer who wrote (81232)7/16/2007 11:08:51 AM
From: TommasoRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
>>>Food is not included in the CPI.<<,

Not in the "core" inflation number, but food and energy count when recalculating Social Security and other pension payments geared to the CPI. Even there, however, the adjustments do not honestly reflect inflation.

Instead of a vacation house, I am heavily into DBA, the agricultural commodities ETF.
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