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To: long-gone who wrote (32702)4/28/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Enigma  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116753
 
<<- in theory - but in practice the purchaser may hold off buying in anticipation of even lower prices and may not buy at all?>>

Essentials have to be bought in a deflation (a real one - not a hypothetical one) but larger ticket items are a different matter and consumers will wait in anticipation of even lower prices causing a depression - at least this is the danger - and we haven't seen this since the 30s - at least I can't remember anything like it.There is generally a vested interest in inflation - of the mild sort. d