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To: Rarebird who wrote (41960)	9/25/2005 10:49:36 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

>>People who have held a credit card for some time should get a surprise: each month, they will have to pay 4 percent of the outstanding balance on the card, not 2 percent>> I'm sure for some people, with rising payments on adjustable, gimmicky mortgages, doubling credit card payments and skyrocketing gasoline prices, it's going to seem like the bad old days of stagflation have come again. From my recollections of that time, although my salary kept increasing steadily, it felt as though things just kept getting tougher, since inflation outran my salary gains. We have yet to see any salary inflation. Will we see any, with globalized competition? This could be a worse situation for Americans than the bad old days of stagflation

To: Rarebird who wrote (41960)	9/25/2005 1:38:11 PM
From: KM	Respond to of 306849

US continues to spend while the rest of the world saves economist.com