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Wed Feb 05 03:14:06 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> herbijudlestoids you know like i was saying to diametric the other day, this article gets a lot of wordcount mileage out of the banal
Wed Feb 05 03:02:17 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> nubbins`: http://www.oecd.org/std/prices-ppp/purchasingpowerparitiespppsdata.htm :)
Wed Feb 05 03:01:29 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> nubbins`: it is not constant. varies in a nonstationary path
Wed Feb 05 03:01:03 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> herbijudlestoids so invite him
Wed Feb 05 03:00:55 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> i wonder if i invited FOFOA to chat here he would come
Wed Feb 05 03:00:05 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> ^
Wed Feb 05 02:59:33 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> because you are only asking about PP, not inflation!
Wed Feb 05 02:59:24 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> then what he is saying is correct nubbins`
Wed Feb 05 02:58:36 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> ^
Wed Feb 05 02:57:49 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> also purchasing power is a better proxy than inflation, because you can have inflation where the purchasing power of a dollar goes up, but also inflatoin where the purchasing power of a dollar goes down
Wed Feb 05 02:54:06 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> soooo...defining inflation as a general price level increase is extremely fuzzy
Wed Feb 05 02:53:21 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> nubbins`: the modern definition of inflation is bullshit, its hedonistically adjusted and the general price includes all sorts of nonsense, which is completely disparately defined across countries
Wed Feb 05 02:52:24 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> ^
Wed Feb 05 02:50:27 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> mircea_popescu: try this one on for size, his articles are quite long but IMHO absolutely worth it (there is a part 2 if you find it interesting enough) http://fofoa.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/moneyness.html
Wed Feb 05 02:49:45 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> well, i would say freegold completely discounts and (if you believe in it) discredits all the goldbug hypothesis bullshit thats out there
Wed Feb 05 02:48:55 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> :P
Wed Feb 05 02:48:40 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> fofoa.blogspot.com (don't hate me for blogspot)
Wed Feb 05 02:48:32 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> the freegold guy
Wed Feb 05 02:48:00 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> lol mircea_popescu you are literally the FOFOA of bitcoin, where s/physical gold/bitcoin/
Wed Feb 05 01:46:21 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> could be opinionated and start with just, say, bitstamp, bitpay and MPEX