Consumer Price Index Calculator

[jdandy]

This is a real eye opener. The consumer Price Index Calculator. Calculate the buying power of dollars today and in past years.

I typed in $33,000.00 in 1968, and discovered it had the same buying power as $213,272.93 in 2011.

Have fun. CPI Inflation Calculator

[Jerome W]

Interesting Dan.

And this keeps you awake at indecent hours .

What is terrific here is that, along with other western countries, it reflects in a large amount the terrible national debts that we will be leaving to our kids.
If western countries were private societies, almost all of them would have been in bankrupt and would have stopped any activity now.
Until now, emerging countries were working for rich countries.
But now, they will continue to sell their products, and "work for us" in a sense, but at the same time, we will be also working for them, in order to pay the incredible interests of our public debts.
Most holders of National bonds and obligations are in the emerging countries, and first holder in the world is China.

[jdandy]

Originally Posted by C220MC275

Interesting Dan.

And this keeps you awake at indecent hours .

Jérôme.......

No, that stuff doesn't keep me up at night. I am just a night owl. I was working on moving my Favorite web links to my new laptop, and ran across that link.