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Numbeo local cost-of-living / rent index drift

Month-over-month change in Numbeo's user-submitted local price index (groceries, restaurants) for EM cities

Feed detail
Measures
Month-over-month change in Numbeo's user-submitted local price index (groceries, restaurants) for EM cities
Source
numbeo.com/cost-of-living (city-level API/CSV export)
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
monthlyupdates roughly monthly
Thesis
Crowdsourced local price inflation outruns official CPI in countries with data manipulation incentives (Argentina, Turkey, Lebanon)
Maps to
local CPI surprise trades, EM inflation-linked bonds
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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