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NickPollard on Jan 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: “OK, but there are two rules…”

I doubt that 6 years (1977 - 1983) is long enough for inflation to have altered the ratio much.

jonburs on Jan 14, 2011 [–]

Inflation during that time period was one of the highest on record for the US -- see ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt.

  CPI June 1977: 60.7     $13 million
  CPI June 1983: 99.5     $21.3 million

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