Saturday, June 27, 2009

Check this out

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics has an indexing program where you can look at how many dollars you’d need now to equal a dollar from years ago.  The oldest year you can look up is 1913…the creation of the Federal Reserve. 

Go ahead…select different years from the drop-down list.  You’ll get a good picture of how well the Federal Reserve and Congress has taken care of the value of our dollar.

3 comments:

Gino said...

bad link.

Tracy said...

Hmmm....works for me. Let me clear my cache (insert poop joke here) and see if it has stopped working.

Gino said...

works.