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		dredmorbius on Feb 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s By CPI deflator, $100 in 1969 is worth $634.76 today. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ Not sure if that calls into question your statement, or suggests that the CPI is drastically understating inflation.

cwaniak on Feb 17, 2014 [–]

By CPI deflator we never doubled our (US) monetary base since 2007.

dredmorbius on Feb 18, 2014 | [–]

I'm not following you. What's your point?

cwaniak on Feb 23, 2014 | | [–]

What exactly you don't follow? You need me to define 'monetary base' to you? You need me to explain to you how to use google/wiki?

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