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Deeeeeeflation!!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Not too much should be made of this since it is seasonally adjusted data and, more importantly, the government's version of inflation has some very serious flaws as discussed ad nauseam over the years, but, earlier today, the one-year, seasonally adjusted change to consumer prices dipped into negative territory for the first time since 1955.
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2 comments:

Chuck Ponzi said...

I am truly astonished to see this on this blog.

a post about deflation?

Chuck POnzi

Anonymous said...

Chuck,

You missed Tim's point.
But of course, no one
is much surprised at this.

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