Eric sent us this from BBC News: World markets lose $5.2 trillion [1]
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From the International Herald Tribune: Global inflation climbs to historic levels [2]
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RBS sent us an article on CCD, from England: Panic in the beehive [3]
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An analysis from Now and Futures shows a US inflation rate of around 18% [4], using data from the now defunct M3 Aggregate figure. (A hat tip to Eric for sending the link.) OBTW, speaking of disappearing data, reader John T. mentioned this tidbit: "Due to budgetary constraints, the Economic Indicators service [5] [web site] will be discontinued effective March 1, 2008. EconomicIndicators.GOV is brought to you by the Economics and Statistics Administration