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To: Dr. Frank fan

You been to the grocery as of late?

The price of everything not made in china is up


62 posted on 11/01/2007 9:05:51 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
You been to the grocery as of late? The price of everything not made in china is up

I have indeed been to the grocery store, at several times during 2007Q3, and noticed no change of noticeable significance over that time. Especially a change occurring purely in 2007Q3. That doesn't mean there hasn't been a change, just that I did not observe one.

You've measured this statistically? Established that the increase is significant? Or is this the same "anecdotal" test that everyone else seems to be using?

You do also realize, I hope, that your grocery store could have a different set of prices for goods as other grocery stores? Like I told others, "Milk went up at MY grocery store by X" is not a counterargument to "0.8% inflation". If anything, it's consistent with that. You say inflation has occurred, and so does the government statistician. What's the dispute?

If your dispute is that you think it MUST BE more than 0.8%, then you'd have to actually talk numbers. But that would require measuring things, gathering data, doing calculations. Much easier just to pretend that "anecdotal" argument is sufficient.

64 posted on 11/01/2007 9:11:29 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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