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To: Ahda who wrote (45445)	12/1/1999 3:22:00 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

<<...hate truth and love idealism.>> Please, No. Truth is your friend. Your idealism has a chance to become reality if and only if truth is knowned. Easy for the animal kingdom to do since what continues their life and their species has replaced a need for truth with the motivation derived from instincts. But we have have the ability to counter this, requiring the science of philosophy to replace the void we created. Good news is that we can accomplish much more good, but bad news is that this is of a rocket science difficult level to master causing most all persons to let another person skilled in this area to determine what is, is. But that is a problem because evil has a better chance to put forth something better digested by the people at large for acceptance. What the good presents is often received as <<...hate truth...>>. So take that which you perceive, and create from it knowledge so that you can decide if what has been "spoon feed" you should remain inside your brain as is or be expelled as mental vomit. doug

To: Ahda who wrote (45445)	12/1/1999 3:22:00 PM
From: Alex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

<<Now, I know that if you exclude energy, CPI inflation looks as though it "is safely locked away." And if you exclude oil and tobacco, PPI inflation, like Franco, still is dead. But if energy and tobacco prices are of no consequence to the inflation picture, why include them in the first place? If we are going to pick and choose what we want to leave in a general price index, maybe I want to exclude the shelter component from the CPI. It represents about 30% of the total CPI. Growth in the shelter component of the CPI has been more than 100 basis points lower this year compared to last year. Perhaps there is a good economic reason for this. Or perhaps its slower growth this year has something to do with the change in the methodology of its calculation. >> ntrs.com