What makes this inflation gauge different from the official CPI and from other real-time trackers: daily recomputation from live market prices, a published methodology that never silently changes, five index variants including a cost-of-living cut with real mortgage payments, and forecasts graded in public after every print.
The short version: the BLS surveys past prices; we price today's market. Both are true answers to different questions — the gap between them, explained on the why-the-gap page, is the information. Every input series is public and re-checkable, every methodology change is logged, and the scoreboard keeps us honest.
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