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To: TigerPaw who wrote (21465)6/18/2003 12:29:24 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 93284
 
bls.gov
So that that federal gov't you are so fond of says that there has been all of a 0.9% decline in the purchasing power of your money so far this year. Annualized, that's about 2%.

It ran 2.4% for all of 2002:
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/History/cpi.01162003.news

Also, the decline in the exchange rate of the dollar is another result of the bursting of the Clinton bubble.