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Re:Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (2012) by derefr on Monday June 29, 2015 @04:37AM (#9796990)
> In real terms adjusted by the price of coke, the median household income has fallen by 69%. (for giggles).

Not necessarily that far-out: since the core CPI that goes into inflationary figures is measured using things like the cost of a loaf of bread, I always thought it'd be nice to be able to flip that around, and see historical economic charts measured in loaf-of-bread-units. It would also allow for easy cross-comparison between figures from different countries.

(To go actually far-out, though, wouldn't it be interesting to have a salary and a bank account denominated directly in inflation-compensated purchasing-power, such that if you got paid 1 BreadBuck, it would buy you exactly one loaf of bread today, tomorrow, or twenty years from now?)

Re:Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (2012) by jcstauffer on Monday June 29, 2015 @06:36AM (#9797299)
re: your parenthetical, this Planet Money episode (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-f...), describes Brazil's real, which was introduced as essentially that - an inflation-proof currency, replacing the cruzeiro, which was destroyed by hyper-inflation.