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To: wideawake

"Lucky for you, you don't understand math or money.

$1T today in 1920 would be $50B."

Bzzt, sorry, wrong answer.

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

"What cost $50,000,000,000 in 1920 would cost $535,216,317,247.55 in 2005."

Don't worry, you were just off half a trillion dollars...


55 posted on 11/18/2005 12:05:55 PM PST by flashbunny (LOCKBOX: Where most republicans keep their gonads after they arrive in Washington D.C.)
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To: flashbunny
Not only is your link a dead link, but it doesn't reflect the actual Fed numbers.
68 posted on 11/18/2005 12:11:22 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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