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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:00 PM Original message |
Were prices really rising over twice as fast in 1979 and 1980 as now |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, yeah... but that was before they took FOOD AND FUEL |
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AllieB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Exactly. It's a way the Repubs have rigged the Inflation Index. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I guess that make some sense |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. All the more reason to keep them IN. . Those are a couple |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. That's exactly right |
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bluesmail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. Annabanana is correct, CPI now does not include |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yes, and 15% was a good mortgage rate. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. that is why I think there has to be some truth to this |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. and yet the dollar bought more than it does now... |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
5. no, the numbers they use today are falsehoods |
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bluesmail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
10. CPI Today is like a shell game. Think Enronomics. |
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GoesTo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
12. It was pretty bad then. |
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Sadie4629 (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
13. I got married in 1978 |
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Lancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. There was also the 2nd Energy Crisis in 1979 |
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