"Roughly 1/3 of inflation is sheltered. Home ownership or renting, or hotels and motels" - Rob Arnott

Hotels and Motels up over 20% last year. Home ownership (which is much bigger) is not counted in CPI as the value of a home) up 32% in the last 2 years. What the BLS does is ask What would the home rent for? They don't know, they just ask the home owners what they think it would rent for.

We're going to see an illusion that inflation is subsiding in the coming months because those months are replacing big inflation months from 1 year ago, followed by an illusion inflation is breaking out in the summer months because those months will replace low-inflation months.