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To: Zardoz who wrote (5597)	4/26/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81101

Will read - and respond - in time - in the meantime is this the deflation which favours gold or some sort of half-assed deflation? Or do we have to have the old fashioned deflation - the opposite of inflation - before gold rises again? Morgy are you pleased that I've been set some reading to do by the teacher? d

To: Zardoz who wrote (5597)	4/26/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 81101

Hutch - I've spent as much time on your material as I'm prepared to. (slightly better than Disraeli's letter to a would-be author "I wasted no time in reading your book") I'll skip the $200 for each article and the $10,000 for sponsorship. Obviously these people say things which are music to your ears - but IMO one can put this into the pot as another opinion among many - the deflation they speak of could be years away. I won't answer your questions - but since you posed them perhaps you might give it a shot? For example why is the CPI a bad measure of inflation? Since you asked - you tell us? I'm too ancient for quiz games. It's always been a benchmark for a simple fellow like me to understand, and many others follow it - so if it really goes up it will have an effect on policy makers - flawed though it may be in your eyes (and probably rightly so)