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Re:Ask HN: What’s your go-to investment for protecting cash ... by okaycan on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:38PM (#19051371)
1) TIPS inflation isn't solely to cover state of California only. It is a nation-wide average.

2) Your main expense categories are just a subset of consumer expenditure that the bureau of labor statistics use to measure price levels of goods and services.[1]

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cesan.pdf

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Re:Ask HN: What’s your go-to investment for protecting cash ... by marketgod on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:04PM (#19051485)
To add to this, your personal inflation rate will be larger because the CPI takes into consideration a similar item. So when the economy is good, a kraft dinner is replaced with a steak dinner, when the economy drops, the opposite is done. So you pay not see the inflation rate change in your daily expenses.
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