"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 04:51:04 GMT, "Moosh:}"
wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:53:38 +0200, Torsten Brinch
posted:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 07:20:24 GMT, "Moosh:}"
wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:46:36 +0200, Torsten Brinch
posted:

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 01:43:18 GMT, "Gordon Couger"
wrote:
We do pay a price for having the cheapest food on the planet.

.. if you look at prices in USA of, say,
bread and cereals, or meat, they .. are not the cheapest
on the planet.

But in what currency? US dollars is hardly informative.

I was thinking of World Bank data for international
price comparisons. They do it in PPP terms, with
100 indicating [item] in [country in question] is
priced equal to the price in USA, and less than 100,
that it is cheaper. See:
http://rrojasdatabank.net/wdi2000/tab5_6.pdf
..
Affordability is what we want to compare, when you
think of it.

No, look above. We are talking about how the price of
food in USA compares to the price of food elsewhere
on the planet.

I didn't say it was the lowest priced I said it was the cheapest. Cheap to
me mean what it costs me in terms of what I have to spend. The price of a
good radio receiver is about the same as it was in 1940 but it is far
cheaper today than it was then.


Gordon