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To: Jack of All Trades who wrote (37236)	6/2/2000 10:16:00 AM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

Real estate prices are not part of CPI (as that is asset and not consumption). Rent is, and that is up 5% YoY from what I see. Not the best possible news, but then the CPI is the average of a basket of goods and services, and to pull the extremes out of that basket in a particular region to make a point about the national economy is intellectualy dishonest. What about the fact that long distance calling charges have dropped 75-80% on average over the past decade? Is that deflationary? Gas prices have held steady ($1.69 for 93, self serve) for the last month in the gas staion that I fill every week. But again, why bother about individual data points when the national average is available? As for help, I have no experience to be honest.