Interesting site: Measuring Worth
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Looking at that $5 gold piece I got Thursday got me thinking: How much purchasing power did that represent to the folks who spent it back when it was first coined (1907).
Measuringworth.com lets you drop in a figure and year, and shows you how much that amount was "worth" in today's dollars based on several comparison models (GDP, Consumer Price Index, relative share of GDP, etc).
Measuringworth.com lets you drop in a figure and year, and shows you how much that amount was "worth" in today's dollars based on several comparison models (GDP, Consumer Price Index, relative share of GDP, etc).
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
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