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To: mishedlo who wrote (53398)	2/10/2006 12:43:12 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Limited Email Surveillance Approved yro.slashdot.org Posted by Zonk on Friday February 10, @09:19AM from the but-they-were-all-bad dept. MrNougat writes "CNet reports that some surveillance of your email has been permitted by U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington, D.C., without first requiring any evidence of wrongdoing. Curiously: 'instead of asking to eavesdrop on the contents of the e-mail messages, which would require some evidence of wrongdoing, prosecutors [of the US Justice Dept.] instead requested the identities of the correspondents. Also included in the request was header information like date and time and Internet address--but not subject lines.'"

To: mishedlo who wrote (53398)	2/10/2006 3:12:36 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I have long thought it naive for people to think the Fed would pause until the markets correct significantly. Once we see oil in the $50s, gold near $500, the Dow around 10,000, and some cooling in home prices -- then it will be time to think about a Fed reversal IMHO.

To: mishedlo who wrote (53398)	2/10/2006 3:27:06 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Mish, you include multiple redundant references to various things one could measure in terms of prices -- how inflation is measured will vary, but the definition does not. Inflation refers to a persistent change in prices - purchasing power of a currency is an extension of pricing that takes into account multiple currencies. There are two ways to see inflation, not 36 or whatever you care to dump into a list. 1. Inflation is a persistent rise in prices 2. Inflation is an increase in money supply The second definition is rarely accepted because it is all but meaningless.