[bvw]

Those "Good Reasons" are as good as a belief in Santa Clause. Kiddies believe in them. They love them. The reasons are good! Yes, sir!

Good kiddies!

And try drawing an un-adjusted chart, to allow folks to use their own recollections and memories of past years so each can more honestly adapt a dollar then to a dollar now.

[AFPhys]

WOW! You really are off the mark here! I sincerely hope that the rest of your life is not so mired in false history.

I'm now surprised that you aren't using for your "evidence" that you had to pay thirty times as much for your first house as your grandparents did, and that during the "good old days" you could buy a Model T for $550. Or that a Coke cost a nickel.

Inflation is a fact of life. Get over it.