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					So, since 1933, the Fed has been managing inflation. 
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					It used to be that there was zero inflation, 
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					if you define it with respect to gold, 
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					and they were really true to that 
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					--zero inflation in terms of gold. 
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					Now, there was inflation with regard to a basket of 
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					--the Consumer Price Index is not just the price of gold; 
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					it's the price of many things, 
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					but the--there would be inflation or deflation 
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					as the relative price of gold changed. 
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					After 1933, we had lost our moorings; 
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					there was no longer any idea