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To: Red Badger

$100 with 5% interest, compounded monthly for fifty years would have grown to $1211.94. At 10% interest you'd have $14,536.99. According to the inflation calculator at http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ an item costing $100 in 1957 would cost $716.53 in 2006.


32 posted on 03/20/2007 12:32:43 PM PDT by Eepsy (The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: Eepsy

Wouldn't cover the costs of repairing/restoring the car..........


35 posted on 03/20/2007 12:35:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
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