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		arethuza on March 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Venezuela's squatter skyscrapers; as the country d... I'm not sure that there is much correlation between the two - the really bad years for inflation were '73 to '83 and oil revenues didn't really take off until '82 or so: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4884.html http://safalra.com/other/historical-uk-inflation-price-conve... I'm obviously not an economist, so you could well be right!

ashconnor on March 6, 2011 [–]

I meant inflation of currency exchange, I should have stated that above.

hollerith on March 6, 2011 | [–]

Which is so bad as to cancel out any positive effect of the spending why?

ashconnor on March 6, 2011 | | [–]

Because it effectively killed UK exports.

arethuza on March 7, 2011 | | [–]

Interesting point - thanks.

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