News analysis: Where's the beef in Case-Shiller attacks?

In back-to-back Inman News columns, Bernice Ross wades into the controversy over the reporting of home-price statistics. In Part 1, "Put a gag on Chicken Little," Ross argues that home prices are stabilizing, but that the media's emphasis on home-price indexes published by Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller has created "a crisis in consumer confidence." In Part 2, "Where's the beef in home-price reports? "she details the bones she has to pick with the Case-Shiller index.

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