Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
Sure, you passed through some TV stores -- yuh, you were there! The only TVs that actually had the dbx trademark on the box came from Zenith (and maybe Mitsubishi). Sony never had a dbx trademark on the box, but their product manuals had dbx in the copyrights. Like I said, just because dbx wasn't on the box doesn't mean that it wasn't inside, and the Wiki article supports my recollection of the facts.



Uh, weren't you the one that claimed that your "3/4 loss of value" came from the govt sources? I simply called your bluff and exposed your nonsense for the lies that they were -- I guess you knowledge of economics and world events is just as lacking as your grasp on HT and audio topics!



What does politics have to do me citing fact (and corrected my original calculation), and you making crap up? You claiming to be a libertarian has nothing to do with you being a liar. You're just a liar because you lie! You got caught in one YET AGAIN, so own up to it and move on. On second thought, just keep doing what you're doing -- poking holes in your balloons is riotous fun!



Right, we should trust YOU because you know better than the professionals who actually compile the data and work with this stuff for a living! Y'know, those professionals who publish the govt figures that you originally said supported your claim?

Your persistence just illustrates your total ignorance of how the CPI is actually calculated -- it's based on the totality of how consumers spend money in all categories, not just on a single category like energy or consumer electronics. I work with the Consumer Expenditure Survey data used to compute the inflation rate all the time, so I know how laboriously documented and open the data is. A single CES cross-tabulation of the full dataset for all expenditure categories is more than 200 pages long. All of the error rates and deviations are stated up front, and any data not meeting their statistical significance thresholds is clearly indicated. How do I know this? Because I actually work with the data, dude.

The BLS statisticians in D.C. will happily answer any questions you might have if you think there's some conspiracy behind the numbers. I know because I've actually TALKED to them about questions I had about their data's confidence intervals, error rates, confidentiality thresholds, etc. Y'know, like I WAS THERE!

If you still think the dollar has lost 3/4 of its value in the last 20 years, you need to start spending U.S. currency.


I am spending more and more, because its lost three fourths of its value in the last 20 odd
years, and if you get off the beltway and do some real research you'll discover that
that is an optimistic estimate.
Even govt types have to admit that the dollar has lost NINETY PERCENT of its value
since 1945.
When I was a kid in the sixties you had to put a nickel and two pennies in a drink machine, drinks were seven cents, candy bars were a nickel.
Of course you will never admit to the greatest theft in history, since you are an acomplice after the fact, either that or grossly incompetent.
Tell people spending six bucks for a burger and fries that the dollar hasnt lost serious value,
or 3.60 for a gallon of gas.
I SUPPOSE YOU ALSO follow the party line that prices rise because of other factors besides printing worthless money.
THERE ARE FLUCTUATIONS in various commodties sure, but across the board inflation has always been caused by one thing, printing worthless paper money backed up by nothing.
Happened in Germany in the twenties, argentia a few back, and is happening NOW in this country.
AND YOU KNOW IT.
Several hundred billion to bail out this or that crooked bank or brokerage, its only ones and zeros in a computer, right?
THERE are 400 TRILLION in derivatives out there, it will NEVER be paid, nethier will the
300 BILLION due every year on social "security", or the 50 trillion plus the govt owes.
I dont need one of the policy wonks who helped lead us into this disaster and helped loot what was once the greatest country on earth by cooking the books for the crooks
in order to cover up their actions to preach to ME that I dont know what I am talking about
just because I am telling the truth.
Of course working in the beltway you probably forgot what the TRUTH was a long time
ago.
my only consolation is that you will be starving along with the rest of us when the last
lender closes his window and the dollar becomes worth its REAL value, which is what a small piece of paper is worth that is even too small to wipe your butt on