From: andronicus451@gmail.com   
      
   Inflation is not invented in the Soviet Union, it existed in ancient Israel as   
   well.   
   The merchants were decreasing the value of money (shekel) and enlarging   
   epha, so they deviated ways to deliver less goods to the poor for more   
   of their wealth, silver, and work.   
      
   In particular, they increased the amount of silver required for a unit of   
   money (shekel), and decreased the unit of weight of goods delivered for that   
   money (epha).   
      
   This in turn created the Old Testament variant of inflation, as fewer and   
   fewer goods could be bought for the same amount of silver.   
      
   God Jehovah explicitly said He hates abominable double standards and   
   diverse weights.   
      
   The proof is in the Holy Scripture:   
      
   Amos 8   
   The Basket of Ripe Fruit   
      
   1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.   
   2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit.   
   Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will   
   not again pass by them    
   any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith   
   the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast   
   them forth with silence.   
      
   4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land   
   to fail,   
      
   5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the   
   sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, MAKING THE EPHAH SMALL, AND THE SHEKEL   
   GREAT, AND FALSIFYING THE BALANCES BY DECEIT?   
      
   6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea,   
   and sell the refuse of the wheat?   
      
   7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget   
   any of their works.   
      
   Micah 6   
      
   9 The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy   
   name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.   
      
   10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and   
   the scant measure that is abominable?   
      
   11 SHALL I COUNT THEM PURE WITH THE WICKED BALANCES, AND WITH THE BAG OF   
   DECEITFUL WEIGHTS?   
      
   12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof   
   have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.   
      
   13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee   
   desolate because of thy sins.   
      
   14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the   
   midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which   
   thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.   
      
   15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but   
   thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.   
      
   16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab,   
   and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the   
   inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my   
   people.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)