Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can make book on it, David. With the gov't printing presses creating money as they have for more than half-a-year and will continue, look for inflation north of ten percent - if we're lucky - within 2-3 years. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rodgers" <drodgers@casefarms.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:04 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] FYI: NIkon price increases > Could the dreaded stagflation be on the horizon? Hopefully not, but a > lot of what I'm reading reminds me of the '70s. Rising prices in > prolonged recession. There's not a lot anyone can do to fix it. Again, > I hope that's not the case. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Henning Wulff [mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com] > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:56 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] FYI: NIkon price increases > > At 7:08 PM -0500 1/15/09, A. Lal wrote: >>Just go an e-mail from Levine's in Boston. Nikon prices are going up >>on Feb 1, with some items jumping up by 30+%. Surprising to see >>price increases in this economic climate. >> >>Can Canon be far behind? >> > > Since last spring the Japanese Yen has gained 70% against the > Canadian Dollar and nearly 50% against the US Dollar. That's a bit > too much to absorb for the distributors. > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.8/1897 - Release Date: 1/16/2009 6:52 AM