Now that the market has digested the CPI data, I’d like to offer up a more nuanced take on what’s going on with inflation, and where it might be headed.
I’ll skip re-hashing the headlines and instead look at a couple of internals.
Obviously not a prediction, but an illustration of the relationship between the core components.
And this relationship suggests to me that we will not see core CPI relief until OER peaks and flattens/declines.
Till then, the Fed will keep chasing its own tail into recession.
In other words, if YoY OER were to keep going to 7%, we would need to see a -4.66% decline in the weighted sum of all other non-rent core components for a flat MoM core print.
For an 8% YoY OER, we would need a -5.34% decline in the weighted sum of non-rent core components.
Given the lags mentioned above, hitting a 7 or 8-handle OER peak increase is not out of question.
Since OER is 40% of core CPI, it would take a serious decline of all the other core components flat on a month over month basis just to stabilize core CPI at zero.
Now, we know that owner’s equivalent rent lags home price increases from anywhere between 12-18 months.
With July 2021 now 13-months in the rear-view mirror, we can expect for OER to peak very soon.
Let’s peel the onion a bit and look at home price appreciation. It appears to have peaked in June 2021.
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