[Bigshrimpin]

Briguy - do you think this period of "controlled" (or out of control) inflation is a planned solution to inflate our way out of the debt from the war spending and the mortgage/housing market fiassco? and maybe one reason we have such high fuel prices now? The folks at some of the community banks I work for seem to think that this crazy period is going to go on for another 18 - 24 months "before it works itself out".