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approaches. The new approach leads to an Owner Occupied Housing Opportunity Cost (OOHOC) index that is a weighted average of the … Index (CPI) produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics (the BLS), is the most widely used measure of inflation. The … index,
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in its efforts to achieve price stability. As Ceccheti also explains, the large …