Michael Perelman wrote:
I am reading all sorts of reports about soaring Chinese demand pushing up commodity prices. Has anybody thought abut the extent to which this effect undo the the beneficial effects of cheap Chinese imports??
Commodity prices, outside oil, have almost no effect on general inflation levels. The major cost these days is labor; raw materials are, by comparison, trivial.
Doug
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