Here's Proof That Core CPI Is Really +3%, Not +1.8% | The Wall Street Examiner

``Meanwhile, market rent, which is the actual price paid by tenants in the marketplace, and is the true state of price level inflation, has been rising much faster. Over the past 15 years rents have risen at a compound annual growth rate of +3.7%... [but] Axiometrics, a research service serving rental housing investors, surveys of hundreds of thousands of rental units across the US each month. It reported that rents rose 5.2% on average nationally, year to year in July... if calculated properly, core CPI should be +3.0% year to year, which is just about where Core Finished Consumer Goods PPI said it should be.''