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Inflation is a squishy concept, but generally people refer to it as a general decrease in purchasing power for a unit of currency, across the entire economy.

When a single good, housing, goes up in price, that is not a general shift across many different goods.

What sort of "real" inflation are you talking about here that's bigger than on paper? What's your metric?




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