They calculate shelter inflation by asking boomers what they would rent the house they bought for a sack of pennies for, the CPI is crafted to never be stagflation ever again, buy EDV.
>Now imagine one day hyperinflation strikes, and the price of your ribeye increases to one hundred dollars while your daily wage remains ten dollars. What happens to the price of your basket of goods? It cannot rise tenfold because you cannot afford the one-hundred-dollar ribeye. Instead, you make do with the chemical shitstorm that is a soy burger for ten dollars. The CPI, magically, shows zero inflation.