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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (32)	6/1/2001 10:02:34 AM
From: Robert J Mullenbach	Respond to of 1643

Take a look a this CRB chart, markets.tradingtech.com I agree, maybe a bottom this summer.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (32)	6/1/2001 11:15:18 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1643

What is the standard response by central bankers around the world to deflationary forces? Print more money. Excessive money growth and creation of credit is what causes inflation, and we're seeing a lot of money growth all over the world. You could point to the steady decline in the CRB as evidence of deflation, and I could just as easily point to steadily rising equity and real-estate prices as evidence of inflation. Which one of us would be right? In actuality, rising or falling prices, wages, etc are not the way to gauge inflation/deflation. You can have price changes of goods due to supply demand factors and you can also have prices changes due to the supply of money. There is a distinct difference, so it is erroneous to assume that rising or falling prices necessarily equal inflation/deflation.