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To: habitrail who wrote (3850)8/3/2002 11:42:23 PM
From: Jim Willie CB  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 89467
 
examples list of inflation-deflation divergence
price trends:

tech goods - down
consumer goods - down
specialty goods - up
utilities - up
food - up
insurance - way up (car, home, health)
property tax - way up
housing/rent - way up
cars - down (counting endless incentives)
airfares - up
hookers - way up
collector items - up (coins, art, jewelry)
hotels - up
foreign classic cars - way up
sports/ movies/ restaurant entertainment - up

my personal take is that CPI includes few if any up items
the divergence will eventually become clear
debt-driven economy -- TREND DOWN in price
cash-driven, public managed economy -- TREND UP in price

gonna get divergent as hell soon, confusing experts to no end
I will find it extremely amusing to observe
they havent figured out this economy up to now
AND IT WILL GET HARDER FROM HERE ONWARD !!!
/ jim



To: habitrail who wrote (3850)8/4/2002 8:51:29 AM
From: sylvester80  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
Inflation as you know is a measure of all your spending in a year. From cloths, food, to cars, gas, electronics, computers etc... My spending (I have been tracking all my receipts in Quicken for the last 6 years) has actually gone down during the last 2 years. Not because of my patterns but because of costs. Your mileage may vary. I'm in the Vegas area.