Comment by mattnewton

I’m not an economist, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that the CPI is gamed somehow, or at least the official government numbers do not reflect the bubble of the US I live in. My friends and family are seeing record wages and investment growth, but when my generation cohort looks at housing and all the numbers there are proportionally even higher, and people are selling 3 year old cars for nearly the nominal price they paid for it 3 years ago.