https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/5.aspxenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/273542.aspxSun, 29 Nov 2009 03:54:22 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:273542Monty Pelerin0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/273542.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&PostID=273542<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:#000000;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:left;"> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;display:block;">Inflation changes our perspective of many things, especially numbers. Richard Feynman stated:</p> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;display:block;"><strong>&ldquo;There<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.economicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/superman_pinball_21.jpg" style="color:#333392;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7054" title="superman_pinball_2" src="http://www.economicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/superman_pinball_21-220x300.jpg" alt="superman_pinball_2" style="border:1px solid #dddddd;margin:10px 10px 5px 0px;padding:1px;float:left;background-color:#f3f3f3;" height="300" width="220" /></a>are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it&rsquo;s only a hundred billion. It&rsquo;s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.&rdquo;<a href="http://www.economicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pinflation300.jpg" style="color:#333392;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7056" title="pinflation300" src="http://www.economicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pinflation300-150x150.jpg" alt="pinflation300" style="border:1px solid #dddddd;margin:10px 0px 5px 10px;padding:1px;float:right;background-color:#f3f3f3;" height="150" width="150" /></a></strong></p> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;display:block;">The path of inflation reflects itself in more than prices. Here is an interesting take on Inflation through the history of Pinball<a href="http://www.theseanachai.com/episodes/pinflation.mp3" style="color:#333392;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>&ndash;<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span>Pinflation</a></p> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;display:block;">To listen to other good short stories, go to the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.theseanachai.com/" target="_blank" style="color:#ce2e08;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Seanachai</a></p> </span></span></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>