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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Inflation
- Message-ID: <2385@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:33:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.211300.8065@athena.mit.edu> <2306@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <93Jan22.120509edt.574@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
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- But money does have value. It has as much value as anything it will buy,
- no?
- Also: you state that we cannot have inflation with no money. But, then, I ask,
- why is it that you only measure prices (which are what inflate, in
- inflation) in money? Why not in other goods? In fact, is that not how
- we benchmark money itself, through things like the CPI, which is a
- bacxxx basket of goods?
- [By the way, I'd like to apologize for the apalling job I am doing
- of editing my messages, I am new to this Unix editor.]
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