[FoRK] How far will the dollar fall? (was: Demonizing the hedge funds...)

[Aaron Burt]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:42:22PM +0000, Russell Turpin wrote:
> We have been in a recession, if GDP is normalized to population growth.
> Which it should be. 

GDP Per Capita has its place.  White House press releases is probably
not one one of them.

> Don't get me going on CPI statistics, and how inflation "ex food and
> energy" is pretty much like health "ex infection and cancer."

Not to worry.  Kevin Phillips has a fine article on the subject in the
May issue of Harper's.