So in terms of placing an accurate number on inflation as felt by the consumer its best to look at the price of groceries, energy etc?

I see your point on housing.

But wouldn’t things like food and the cost of energy be critical to calculating total inflation?

These are items that we simply cannot go without. I understand they’re volatile but at the same time people need to eat no matter what. They can stop buying television, they can’t stop buying loaves of bread. Either way I’ll check out the article. Thank you!

I was reading a NYT article and often times on the graphs they have inflation separated from inflation on things like food and energy.

If you combined the two inflation would be something like 12%

But they only have it as 6%.