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1 posted on 07/24/2011 10:26:17 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum
I ran it through a inflation calculator.

What cost $5.62 in 1962 would cost $40.06 in 2010. .

2 posted on 07/24/2011 10:29:46 AM PDT by Palter (Celebrate diversity .22, .223, .25, 9mm, .32 .357, 10mm, .44, .45, .500)
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I remember 1964. My father bought a NEW 1964 Chevy Impala for $2000 and was telling me how ridiculous it was that a CORVETTE cost $4000.


3 posted on 07/24/2011 10:29:56 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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Leave the dog in the car! lol!


4 posted on 07/24/2011 10:31:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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In 1962 I was a Frosh in college. A 5.00 date had a great return on investment. Of course curfew was 11:00 so I rarely got past 2nd base!


6 posted on 07/24/2011 10:35:24 AM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
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When did the War on Poverty end?


8 posted on 07/24/2011 10:42:23 AM PDT by seton89 (Aequinimitas per ignorantiam)
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According to the copyright date in the actual video, it’s MCMLVII, or 1957, not 1962.


10 posted on 07/24/2011 10:46:57 AM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: Nachum

MCMLVII seems to be 1957 and not 1962. Not sure if that makes much of a difference, but...


14 posted on 07/24/2011 11:16:29 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad ((((( )))))
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In 1961, my parents bought the house where they still live, for $41,000.

If the seller had been paid in silver certificates, and had redeemed each at the bank for 0.77344 ounces of silver (31,711 ounces), the seller would have, today, about $1,272,000 - and after taxes, maintenance, and improvements to the home, would be ahead on the deal by quite a bit.


18 posted on 07/24/2011 11:31:01 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows.)
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To: Nachum

The local grocery store has both 8-pack and 10-pack granola bars selling for the same price. Halfway to the change over to smaller packages.

That’s 20% inflation right there.


24 posted on 07/24/2011 12:23:49 PM PDT by sbMKE
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