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 Jul 24 2008, 10:05 AM
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Its about time.
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Jul 24 2008, 11:30 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
yeah I noticed that story while I was looking at the AJ about the damn house directly behind mine being burned down via arson....
Suffice it to say during my 9 years in Lubbock I saw at least 3-4 attempts to make the county wet, none of which succeeded. I'll believe it when I see the goods on the shelf. |
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Jul 29 2008, 11:07 AM
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 Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
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Aug 1 2008, 10:50 AM
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woah...
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Aug 1 2008, 11:24 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
well.. it's the first time ever that the government's bailed out the largest mortgage companies... why would you be so surprised?
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Aug 1 2008, 11:32 AM
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Fool Group: Members Posts: 2,127 Joined: 23-February 06 From: LBB Member No.: 56 |
QUOTE (cmac @ Aug 1 2008, 11:50 AM)  woah... ... I'd like to see that adjusted for inflation. -------------------- Spam? Isn't that something poor people eat?
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Aug 1 2008, 11:34 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
QUOTE (James @ Aug 1 2008, 12:32 PM) ... I'd like to see that adjusted for inflation. $0 adjusted for inflation is still $0. |
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Aug 1 2008, 11:46 AM
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Fool Group: Members Posts: 2,127 Joined: 23-February 06 From: LBB Member No.: 56 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Aug 1 2008, 12:34 PM) $0 adjusted for inflation is still $0. Look at the scale! Just because it's pretty damn close to the line doesn't mean it's $0, especially way back in the 1920's. Obviously, there's not much adjusting needed for the modern era, but there does seem to be some spikes around early 1920's, early 1930's, early-to-mid 1970's, and 1986-87. The very first spike, which seems to correspond to WWI, is easily representative of several billion dollars. QUOTE ("http://www.measuringworth.com/") Current data is only available till 2007. In 2007, $3,000,000,000.00 from 1916 is worth: $58,461,090,225.56 using the Consumer Price Index $41,541,358,581.06 using the GDP deflator $121,641,190,667.74 using the value of consumer bundle * $218,973,214,285.71 using the unskilled wage * $281,659,520,947.03 using the nominal GDP per capita $834,492,974,758.21 using the relative share of GDP Pick your scale and the numbers of today don't seem nearly as drastic. -------------------- Spam? Isn't that something poor people eat?
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Aug 1 2008, 11:56 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
I did look at the scale. Look at that 1985 peak, at most that's $10 billion. you think 1985 $10 billion translates to $175 billion 2008?
And by your own post, $3 billion in 1916 = $58 billion in 2008. Still nowhere near $175 billion. I will agree with you it's dumb to look at something like that without inflation, and whoever created it probably just wanted the "woah" reaction from people like cmac, but still. |
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Aug 1 2008, 12:00 PM
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Fool Group: Members Posts: 2,127 Joined: 23-February 06 From: LBB Member No.: 56 |
For my purposes, I'm going to choose to use the Nominal GDP per Capita value as it proves my point the best
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Aug 1 2008, 12:02 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
well I got on a couple other inflation sites and most of them agree w/the lower numbers
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Aug 5 2008, 09:23 AM
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Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
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Aug 5 2008, 09:45 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
yeah I saw $3.58 down here yesterday (even after people new the storm was on its way)
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Aug 5 2008, 11:50 AM
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 New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
I'm hoping gas is below $3.20 when we make our drive to Georgia in a little over 3 weeks... Doubtful... but one can dream
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Aug 5 2008, 02:20 PM
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Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
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