Here’s a great widget that explains how much the inflation rate has increased since your birth. Since launching a website dealing with inflation just a few days ago, I’ve been looking for widgets to promote, and this is one of the more interesting ones.
Since I was born, inflation has almost doubled prices of everything, but average incomes have only increased about 30%. That means people with traditional incomes are getting destroyed by the current inflation rate.
We also just added a page on savings account data and a page on credit card info. Check them out.
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