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To: Jack of All Trades who wrote (71237)	10/6/2006 4:47:42 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

<My gas for my commute is now some 30% cheaper. -The houses that I am looking to upgrade to have fallen >30%. -I am seeing house prices per sqft come back to 1999/2000 levels and they are still not selling.> These are good examples of what inflation and deflation are NOT -- short term price swings are not inflation or delfation. If we called every short term price swing inflation and deflation then we would have deflation a large part of the time. The fact is, since world war II, we have not had any period of deflation -- although we have had plenty of price swings. We have been in a decades long trend towards higher prices and nothing has broken that long term trend. The idea that we face deflation is, to be a bit forward, nutty.