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Dick wrote: > When I bought the house I am in at this time it cost me about a years salary > or $15,000.00 .Today this same house appraised for nearly $400,000.00. My > point is it would take quite a few years salary to buy it now. I bought it > in 1960. > Dick, Aye, that's the problem. The prices of different things change at different rates. Because of that, inflation is not fair to various people. It benefits some and heavily penalizes others, depending on their work and what they most need to buy. Because of this basic unfairness, we put a lot of effort into suppressing inflation as much as possible. The inflation calculators (and my wages-based-inflation numbers) are an overall approximation but it gives you perspective on the effects of inflation. By a simple inflation calculator, building a new Coupe could be done near $36,000. IF we already owned a factory making automatic aircraft building equipment and were able to make 5-20 Coupes a day then maybe we could do it. Alas! Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/ ed -at- edburkheadQQQ.com (change -at- and remove the QQQ) I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure if you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. (Jim, AKA Midnight Plowboy) ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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