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To: blam

When home prices and salaries start going up, you can worry about hyperinflation. Until then, these are just temporary commodity price spikes caused by bad government policy - and the deflationary depression remains firmly in place.


10 posted on 10/30/2010 6:39:25 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Until then, these are just temporary commodity price spikes caused by bad government policy - and the deflationary depression remains firmly in place.

...and crop failures that have occurred around the world - wheat in Russia and soybeans in Argentina.

You're right on the money.

11 posted on 10/30/2010 6:42:22 PM PDT by politicket (1 1/2 million attended Obama's coronation - only 14 missed work!)
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Precisely, Mr. Jeeves. Price distortions are not inflation, let alone hyperinflation.


31 posted on 10/30/2010 8:26:52 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Gone Galt and loving it)
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Hyperinflation vs. Inflation: Understand The Difference
36 posted on 10/30/2010 9:19:40 PM PDT by blam
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