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Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by yummyfajitas on Monday February 09, 2015 @11:15AM (#9021902)
Inflation was 1.5-1.6%.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/CPIAUCSL.txt

edit: computation done by comparing Jan 1 2012 to Jan 1 2013, etc.

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Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by philh on Monday February 09, 2015 @11:27AM (#9021980)
Between which dates? If I'm reading this correctly, Jan 08 to Jan 14 is 212 to 234, which is about 10%. (This also matches the statistic that I happen to have memorized of 8% inflation between 2010 and 2014.)
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