Prices 15 years ago!!

Prices 15 years ago

makes you want to scream. I have some old powders, mostly partial cannisters. Some from the mid seventies.
H110 was about 8.00, without going upstairs, to get the can and read label.
RCBS Rock Chucker, scale ,powder measure,and stand, lube pad and lube , deburring tool, neck lube brushes one set of dies for .357 was, way less than a hundred collars.
I waiting for the one ,five dollar, ten, twenty, and fifty dollar coins.
A new Plymouth Duster 340 gold with gold leave vinyl top, 390 limited slip, auto air was sticker 4200.00 and change new. Caddy was 4800.00, I think, in 1971.
Our new home on one acre was 32,000.00 in 75. Phone bill was free, since wife worked for Ma Bell. Dialed four numbers, locally. Electric heat and air was thirty something, in winter and twenty or so in summer.
In 52 Dad hurt on job. Union bought groceies that filled the table. Company was right behind them with the same or more. One bill several feet long was 15.00 and change. I was four but I remember Mama kinda tearful and commenting Lord Al Mighty all that money or maybe it was the groceries.
 
used this CPI calculator to learn that $12.90 in 2000 would be $17.83 today. You can sometimes still get Ramshot powders that cheap, but most powder and primers have been driven up in constant dollar terms. Many industries do worse. Medicine, higher education, and of course government, have all surpassed the rate of inflation in dramatic leaps and bounds. Mathematically, if they keep that up without limit, after awhile the one that grows fastest, in absolute terms, will have all the money there is, at which point the rest of us will be bartering again, I suppose.
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[Uncle Nick, /QUOTE]

Uncle Nick, if that's based of the Fed.Gov's CPI, then it's unadulterated Bullsqueeze, and you Know it is, if you are paying attention: they constantly change the items they sample the retail prices of to calculate the rate of inflation (as I recall, the used the price of computer chips in the 90's to make inflation look more palatable, while the price of things working folks NEEDED kept rising) ....... doubt me? Whenever the cite the "CPI" on the news, they note "excluding Food and Energy" ..........
 
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