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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (34468)	6/26/2005 11:47:49 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

If the OE rent component of inflation is even occasionally accurate, it's entirely accidental! When you extrapolate from that, realizing that it's the largest fraction of the CPI, how can anyone have any trust or confidence in the government actions that flow from the calculation of the CPI?

To: Les H who wrote (34468)	6/26/2005 11:59:31 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The carve-up of Iraq begins thelondonline.co.uk

To: Les H who wrote (34468)	6/26/2005 12:17:42 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 306849

I'm very suspicious about Willingness to Pay surveys where the people being asked do not have familiarity with the commodity and as you say they aren't in an "incentivized" environment. This is a big problem with most valuation in the environmental economics field and looks like it here too in computing the OER. "Why buy when you can rent?" I like that :) My sentiments exactly. Borrow money, borrow an apartment and buy something productive...