Rents nationwide declined in September from the prior month, two new reports show. But that slowdown isn't showing up in the monthly inflation data yet. Here's why:
The slowdown in rents isn't yet showing up in the monthly inflation data. By the CPI's measure — also out Thursday — rents were up 0.8% in September., is that the private-market data from the real estate companies covers new rental contracts only; while CPI captures rents more broadly.
"Housing is now the most important driver of inflation," noted former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry SummersIt could take as long as a year for the CPI data to reflect this deceleration, according to research published by theThe authors of the paper conclude that taking a broader measure of rents, as the CPI does, is the right way to understand price growth — but when it comes to monetary policy they're less sure.
They seem to imply the Fed might need to watch the private market data to get a sense of where inflation is right now and react accordingly.As Pantheon Macroeconomics' chief economist Ian Shepherdson said yesterday, "Evidence of falling inflation is everywhere except in the inflation data."
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