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A comment on Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula. Parent comment

Re:Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Governme... by lowkey on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:38AM (#40028709)
You make some valid points but one nitpick: what we call organic food today, they simply called food in the 60's since all food was by definition organic.
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Re:Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Governme... by GeneralMayhem on Sunday April 14, 2024 @01:36AM (#40028915)
That is abjectly false. Synthetic pesticides have been used since before the second world war. Silent Spring was written in 1962 about the effects of the amounts of DDT that had already accumulated in the environment by that point.
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