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Diving Into the Medical CPI: Are Your Medical Expenses Up Only 5% from Year Ago?

Courtesy of Mish.

On November 1, I posted a couple of charts from Variant Perception that shows medical price inflation plus rent inflation is up nearly 9% from a year ago.

Let’s review those charts, then take a look at a series of charts from the St. Louis Fed data repository on medical expenses alone.

Retail Sales vs. Medical + Rental CPI Inverted

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Consumer Discretionary Equities vs. Medical + Rental CPI Inverted

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The above charts from Variant Perception.

Here is a trio of charts that show medical expenses are up 5% from a year ago.


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