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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by digikata on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:49AM (#13080823)
I wonder if that first chart is inflation adjusted. I suspect it's not.
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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by 6502nerdface on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:23PM (#13081257)
> I wonder if that first chart is inflation adjusted. I suspect it's not.

That chart (and subsequent text) quite clearly says "current US dollars," which is presumably 2012 dollars given the date of publication. So yes, it is inflation adjusted.

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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by digikata on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:32PM (#13081364)
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

Shows flattening of growth from 2012 to 2016. This chart shows "real" output.

I could be misiterpreting but is it that that "current" dollars adjusts for currency inflation, while "real" dollars adjusts for price-of-goods inflation. Or are they basically the same type of adjustment?

https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/11...

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