Let's Go Back in Time

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• P0CKETCHANGE Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2025 1:31PM edited April 25, 2025 1:31PM

  Massive currency debasement.

  Would be interesting to see the inflation-adjusted 1944 values and compare to current market values.

  Nothing is as expensive as free money.

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• Higashiyama Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2025 3:07PM

  @PocketChange said: Massive currency debasement.

  That's definitely a factor, but only one of several. Prices are up by roughly 20X since 1944. (though our lifestyles are so different, such a number is a little hard to interpret)

  Other factors include:

  1. The vast increase in per capita real incomes since 1944, especially for the upper middle class and wealthy
  2. The growth in interest in coin collecting since 1944, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, but persisting to this day

  Higashiyama

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• jmlanzaf Posts: 36,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2025 4:22PM

  I'd buy stock instead

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• Clackamas1 Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2025 4:42PM

  @jmlanzaf said:
  I'd buy stock instead

  In Sears?

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• jmlanzaf Posts: 36,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2025 4:45PM

  @Clackamas1 said:

  @jmlanzaf said:
  I'd buy stock instead

  In Sears?

  Diversified portfolio.

  And don't forget the Sears dividends you would have gotten for 70 years

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