Before that time, it was basically clear that outside of wartime (when gold-standard conventions were often suspended), you could basically count on the dollar holding its value against major things like the consumer price level, foreign currencies, and commodities such as gold itself.

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We are starting to see consumer-level inflation, via the Consumer Price Index, creep up in various economies, but, to date, there has been a disconnect between the 4 to 6 percent wholesale-level inflation and the 1 to 2 percent consumer-level inflation.

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Our firm has said for some time that at some point, price pressures at the wholesale level would likely surface at the consumer level.

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Burke argues that the price of enterprise-level flash is dropping at a slower pace than consumer flash as companies slowly buy into the new technology.

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Rising energy prices pushed consumer-price inflation in the year to January up to 2.6%, its highest level since September 2001.

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In terms of what innovators around the world are saying though the iPad is not exciting people the way the Kinect is and the reason is that the Kinect presents more open-ended and broader opportunities for people to redesign their work experience, at a consumer price level.

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