tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258979445050968882.post8390059439202096872..comments2023-11-26T06:55:42.401-05:00Comments on [ The Financial Ninja ]: Time Travel: Equities Adjusted for Real InflationBen Bittrolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465978905157927856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258979445050968882.post-27950397038760222132009-01-08T14:39:00.000-05:002009-01-08T14:39:00.000-05:00if you re-did all the charts with the 'real' infla...if you re-did all the charts with the 'real' inflation numbers it would be 100 times worse...impossible... but if the charts used car prices or food prices changes going back to 1920 it would be amazing.<BR/><BR/>i still get the arguement that 'you make more money today' than we did in 1965....yes but product prices went up exp more.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258979445050968882.post-69985956843442995092009-01-08T07:14:00.000-05:002009-01-08T07:14:00.000-05:00Could not correct: had to fund massive defense spe...Could not correct: had to fund massive defense spending increases starting in 1980.<BR/>US military sector has been sucking US taxpayer dry, a productive-blue-state to unproductive(military)-red-state transfer. That would end without "threats to America". <BR/>The real threat was that there would be no credible "threat to America" and that the military-$$ gravy train would stop running in the Southern US.<BR/>Guns won, butter lost, we all have to 'share the sacrifice".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com