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To: Mama Bear who wrote (15105)	8/31/2000 2:45:40 AM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

This is fcking amazing: If we assume that service-sector productivity growth is at least as high as the average GDP price deflator rise of 1.6% over the last three years, then inflation is zero. Now, what if service sector productivity growth is running even higher, say 2.5-3.5%? Then we're looking not an inflation, but at deflation, at a rate of about 1-2%. OK, if this is true, I have one question. Show me something in my everyday life that is not going up in price? The cost of housing alone* is enough to offset a 10% drop in everything else. But I don't see "everything else" falling. Hell, it seems like EVERYTHING is more expensive. Where do they come up with these morons? Who cooks up these stats?

To: Mama Bear who wrote (15105)	8/31/2000 8:38:09 AM
From: pater tenebrarum	Respond to of 436258

Barb, thanks for the link...in order to fight European food inflation i have decided to substitute eating with breathing...it's almost as nice...