I was begining to buy into the gold bugs arguments but it looks like they are wrong http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/08/what_does_the_g.html
http://stefanmikarlsson.blogspot.com/2008/08/gdp-terms-of-trade-issue.html It doesn't end, oh no.... it just won't end. Must it be so hard?
the guy from that link makes resonable arguments but thats not my point. I'm saying that the government is not likely to be cooking these numbers because the deflator is not supposed to measure the consumer inflation rate