Consumer Prices Fall Record Amount

American Voices

November 21, 2008 | ISSUE 44•47

The Consumer Price Index fell a record 1 percent in October, the steepest one month decline in its history. What do you think?

America's having a 1 percent off sale? Sweet!

Caroline Wenders
Systems Analyst
Hey, no one understands that better than me, except for economists, other financial experts, and pretty much anyone else who went to college.

Greg Trout
Contractor
Inflation is bad. Deflation is bad. Is there a direction prices can move in that will leave the economy substantially less fucked?

Jeremy Edelston
Unemployed

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