Well, we've got some breaking news and some great news for real estate investors.

We just got the new the consumer price index numbers

out over the past 24 hours and as I dive into the data

and I say to talk with my economist friends about the implications of this for the broader market

This is really good news for the economy again. I just recently recorded a video. We haven't published it yet on why I believe we are not heading for a United States housing crash.

Check that out soon.

One of the big indicators I talk about of course is pent up supply and demand.

That's a separate issue.

But of course inflation and interest rates are a huge piece of this and we just got great

CPI numbers, consumer price index numbers.

Now it's important to understand the price of things that it's broken into

multiple categories.

The consumer price index, though, cooling to a 3.2%.

And what this means, if you're watching the Federal Reserve very closely, this means we are likely ending any federal interest rate hikes, the consumer index that is, excuse me, the federal benchmark rate that the Federal Reserve sets.

And when the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, all of the other industries, credit card interest rates, mortgage interest rates,

all of those things, of course, end up going up

as a result of whatever the Federal Reserve does.

The notion now that the cost of things is dropping and it's been dropping

consistently means that inflation is coming down and if you just look across if you

want to get an understanding of how Wall Street looks at this look at real estate related stocks and what are what are I don't you know that's not something that I'm an investor in okay I invest in actual real estate I buy cash flowing rental

properties that's what I invest in to me it's the it's the smartest investment a person

can make because it's not only a hedge against inflation, you get the tax benefits,

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