On 4/10/2012 9:49 AM, Jack wrote:
On 4/8/2012 3:04 PM, tiredofspam wrote:
No doubt that you are right about the lumber.
Even man made lumber (ply) is diminishing in quality.

And the price is getting up there for all, hardwoods, softwoods, and ply.

Price is high but is the true cost any different? I heard somewhere that
in 1920 you could buy a gallon of gas for 2 dimes, and if you melted the
silver out of those two dimes today, you could still buy a gallon of gas
with them. Wood is probably no different.




Governments reduce their debt by printing funny money. The value of
money can only be increased by increasing productivity, not with a
printing press.


Well, taking money out of circulation works too. One might even argue
that the reduction in the value of home prices reduced purchasing power,
which may have increased the relative value of a dollar. No?

Perhaps that partly explains why the rate of inflation now is not higher
now than I anticipated it would be.

Bill