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A comment on Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s. Parent comment

Re:Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s by dredmorbius on Sunday February 16, 2014 @09:53PM (#7250369)
By CPI deflator, $100 in 1969 is worth $634.76 today.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Not sure if that calls into question your statement, or suggests that the CPI is drastically understating inflation.

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Re:Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s by cwaniak on Monday February 17, 2014 @10:12AM (#7252376)
By CPI deflator we never doubled our (US) monetary base since 2007.
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Re:Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s by dredmorbius on Monday February 17, 2014 @10:29PM (#7256188)
I'm not following you. What's your point?
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Re:Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s by cwaniak on Sunday February 23, 2014 @04:44AM (#7285415)
What exactly you don't follow? You need me to define 'monetary base' to you? You need me to explain to you how to use google/wiki?
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