Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:20:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Mario,
I have tried to make this as clear as I can, the 5.1%
rate used, once again, is the privately calculated US
inflation rate. No one trusts US govt numbers
anymore. This is not difficult to understand, it is
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Mario Goveia wrote:
> Even Mervyn Lobo has now confirmed that the 5.1% he
> had mentioned was a rate used by non-US lenders when
> making loans to American businesses, which would be a
> hurdle rate that is always higher than the inflation
> rate by an amount that reflects the lender's perceived
>
Mervyn Lobo mervynalobo at yahoo.ca
Fri Nov 16 08:53:52 PST 2007 wrote:
>
Mario,
The worthiness of official US Govt info took a nose
dive after they announced that Iraq had WMD and was
ready to attack in 45 minutes. Since then, no one
trusts their info. Financial firms are collecting
their own US i
Dear All:
once again bwana mervyn is dancing around the bushes
...
to recap:
mervyn said the the inflation index doesnt include
food and fuel..
mario responded that it does..
the FACt is there are different indices and some
exclude certain items..so to be fair to mervyn and
mario both are corr
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:27:43 +
From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Mario has claimed to be an MBA. Therefore I am taken
aback that he had to resort to Google, to try and
fathom out what is really going on w.r.t inflation
gauging in the USA.
>
Mario asks:
>
Gabe says he is "taken aback
Mario Goveia wrote:
> So, let me get back to safer ground by using the
> official US government statistical information since
> the entire financial world uses this as their primary
> reference on information about the US, other than
> those who confuse US government statistics with US
> government
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On 12/11/2007, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mario responds:
> >
> I was surprised to read this as I did not recognize
> two of the assertions made therein: a) that inflation
> in the US is running at 5.1%, and b) that the US
> excludes the cost of food and gasoline (petrol) in
> calcu
Dear All:
If mario Goveia is correct it means that our gaunthi
Soros is seriously misinformed and what is worse is
that he is freely disseminating his factually
incorrect information with impunity on goanet.
I am waiting for an clarification.
Mervyn is probably talking about the core CPI which
e
Mario Goveia wrote:
> I was surprised to read this as I did not recognize
> two of the assertions made therein: a) that inflation
> in the US is running at 5.1%, and b) that the US
> excludes the cost of food and gasoline (petrol) in
> calculating US inflation.
Mario,
I do believe your absence fr
Mervyn Lobo
Sat Nov 10 19:59:47 PST 2007 wrote:
>
Inflation in the US is running at 5.1%. As you know,
the US has an unique method of measuring inflation. It
does not take into account the cost of food and
petrol. Maybe this is because US residents are not
concerned about those two components. Pen
Vivian A. DSouza wrote:
> And what is this constant harping on the under-valued rupee?
> The rupee has appreciated at least 25 percent against several
> major currencies in the past year, and is bound to appreciate
> further as the Indian economy booms. The undervalued rupee
> is a mixed bles
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