Inflation Revisited

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  A problem good students have is that when they are discouraged from understanding something, they take the hint. I’m attempting to boil away some of the mystical malarkey around our everyday understanding of inflation. Don’t demand to understand or agree with every detail. Inflation is a catchall for rising prices. I don’t have the prescription for rising prices. What I can do is categorize inflation first by currency and then by class. Use of this generic term obscures the distinction between currency inflation, our currencies value against other currencies and domestic inflation when our prices increase but stay in range of other nations or the price of oil. At this point there may be some free market(oxymoron) apologists who make their living prattling that currency inflation can be ignored: -The market will adjust. Cheaper currency means greater competitiveness in the world markets. This will lead to innovation and growth in the cheaper country. After which we all h...
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Chanukah

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Chanukah is packaged as some sort of gooey sweet adjunct of Christmas. Maccabees were sick twisted.

 They hated the Greeks. That’s understandable:
-Oh, you have a god; well of course we can include him. 
-He’s the greatest? Hmm, work with me here, we conquered you, right? 
-So, you study the law while we study the world, how interesting.
 
Here you are, proud of reading, writing and developing a sophisticated integrated society and the newbies are in charge, treating you like hicks. What we are celebrating is a fundamentalist homophobic resistance movement engaged in terrorist activities against a modern world civilization.

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