Shelter | Eye On Housing

Housing Costs Continue to Drive Price Gains

Jing FuMay 15, 2024May 15, 2024

Both overall and core inflation eased slightly in April amid higher costs for gasoline and shelter. On a year-over-year (YOY) basis, the shelter index rose by 5.5% in April, following a 5.7% increase in March. Despite a slowdown in the YOY increase, shelter costs continue…

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How Quickly Do Prices Respond to Monetary Policy?

Eric LynchApril 17, 2024May 7, 2024

As economist Milton Friedman once quipped, monetary policy has a history of operating with “long and variable lags.”[1] What Friedman was expressing is that it takes some time for the true effects of monetary policy, like the changing of the federal funds rate, to permeate…

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