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Shampoobra

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5. This looks like a job for the CPI Inflation Calculator...

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat May 12, 2012, 05:39 PM

May 2012

I love this little gadget...

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

Your 1965 $25 bank balance would be worth $182 in 2012.

The $20 they extracted would be worth $145 in 2012.

That's a lot of money to be conning from a 10-year-old.

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First person to ever flimflam me was Billy Graham [View all] NNN0LHI May 2012 OP

Interesting story. bvar22 May 2012 #1

The last time was when the Hunt Brothers got me NNN0LHI May 2012 #3

You and I may be siblings from another mother, bvar nolabear May 2012 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author NNN0LHI May 2012 #2

That's a sad story. And a good one to remember. yardwork May 2012 #4

This looks like a job for the CPI Inflation Calculator... Shampoobra May 2012 #5

Think of how many people the charlatan has done that way. sarcasmo May 2012 #7

He got to my poor dying mother too. nolabear May 2012 #8