Thread: Twinkie for your thoughts

Inflation rate ranges (high and lows) for years 2010-12:
2012: 1.41 -2.93
2011: 1.63 - 3.87
2010: 1.05 - 2.63

Inflation rate ranges (highs and lows) for years 1950-59:
1959: 0.35 - 1.73
1958: 1.76 - 3.62
1957: 2.90 - 3.73
1956: 0.37 - 2.99
1955: -0.74 - 0.37
1954: -0.74 - 1.51
1953: 0.37 - 1.14
1952: 0.75 - 4.33
1951: 6.00 - 9.36
1950: -2.08 - 5.93

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I brilliantly refuted your contentions but you'll have to take my word for it ..... I hit cancel and here this drivel is instead.

You shouldn't have Jimmy - I don't take this stuff personally AT ALL. I try as hard as I can to be as objective and factual as I can be - I don't make up those facts, so I can't take it personally... they are what they are.

I am doing my Masters in Business as we speak Jimmy. Take my word for it when I say I have heard it all from all kinds of people from all walks of life. I think its great to discuss these things... that's what the study of econ is all about, and I love econ.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Inflation rate ranges (high and lows) for years 2010-12:
2012: 1.41 -2.93
2011: 1.63 - 3.87
2010: 1.05 - 2.63

Inflation rate ranges (highs and lows) for years 1950-59:
1959: 0.35 - 1.73
1958: 1.76 - 3.62
1957: 2.90 - 3.73
1956: 0.37 - 2.99
1955: -0.74 - 0.37
1954: -0.74 - 1.51
1953: 0.37 - 1.14
1952: 0.75 - 4.33
1951: 6.00 - 9.36
1950: -2.08 - 5.93

So what does that say to you bro?

Originally Posted by earcutter

So what does that say to you bro?

Hold on, I'm crunching #s

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Hold on, I'm crunching #s

Make it easy on yourself...there is a chart on that site that gives you the averages

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Hold on, I'm crunching #s

They should provide averages for you buddy.

I just wonder how inflation is going to become an issue with respect to manufacturing in the 50's vs. now. Or are we thinking something else?

Sorry - just excited and want to know where you are going before I have to put the kids to bed LOL

Originally Posted by Castel33

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The chart didn't provide the average yearly changes (ranges) I sought.
Between 1950-59, that average yearly change (fluctuation?) = 2.577. Highest recorded score = 9.36, lowest = -2.08
Between 2010-12, the average yearly change (fluctuation?) = 1.78. Highest recorded score = 3.87, lowest = 1.05

Inflation was, on average, higher in the 1950s.

Sorry for the delay, my old elementary stats prof always told us to crunch our own #s. Old habits and all, I guess.

David --
Isn't inflation usually one of the sticking points in any contractual negotiation?

This just in: negotiations appear to have broken down.
Hostess Bankruptcy: Mediation Between Union, Company Breaks Down

Kind of makes this whole discussion pointless now, I guess.

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