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To: razorback-bert

No doubt about it, commodity inflation has already started in oil, gasoline, and food prices. Then in about two years when the labor market strengthens somewhat, we’ll start to see wage & salary increases and a substantial increase in overall inflation. Taking out the phony adjustments by the Labor department for hydronics and “geometric pricing”, we’ll be getting hit with actual inflation somewhere around 5-7% in a few years. Because there’s so much more global business competition and global production capacity than in the 70s, I don’t think we’ll see double-digit inflation in this decade, but inflation is surely going up substantially from today.


3 posted on 01/09/2010 1:34:05 PM PST by your local physicist (Obama is the Democrats' punishment for stabbing our brave soldiers in the back in Iraq.)
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To: your local physicist
commodity inflation has already started in oil, gasoline, and food prices.

The thing that gets to me is this --- energy prices as far as I know, is NOT being considered in the CPI calculations. It really should to reflect the reality of what consumers actually use. Hence, inflation numbers to me are really artificially being kept low.
6 posted on 01/09/2010 5:49:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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