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Except CSI across the board has increased incredibly fast compared to historical trends since 2000 ish, not just in cities.

EDIT: I meant CSI, Case-Schiller Index, for house prices, a tragic typo XD

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The BLS has a page that shows the CPI over the last 20 years[1]. Looks perfectly fine over that timeframe. Some ups and downs as one would expect but generally on target.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

I meant CSI haha, that was a bad typo

Until you look at commodities, minus energy and food. These also happen to be within 1% of all time highs.

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