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Brent,
Here's a link to an article written by Gibbons Burke for Future's Mag.
on adjusting price data for inflation. There's a link in the article
to the Fed. site Earl mentioned with monthly CPI data. I've never seen
daily inflation data.
http://www.futuresmag.com/library/august96/comptrdr.html
It looks like there's a CPI calculation spreadsheet program
(CPICALC.XLS) at the following FTP site; I haven't used it and I'm not
sure what it does:
ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/gibbonsb/futures/pc/
Have fun,
Brad
--- BrentinUtahsDixie <brente@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One thing I wish I had was about 40 or 50 years of daily inflation
> Rate data
> so that I could find the ratio of data to inflation. I've looked for
> this
> before but not found exactly what I wanted.
>
> For example; by my reasoning, the retail price of most things is
> about 5
> times more expensive then they were in about 1970. If you applied
> that to an
> 11000 Dow we would be at about 2200 which was about 1200 more than
> the Dow
> was back then. Gold would be about $55 per ounce. Sugar less than 1
> cent.
> Wheat about $50
> per bushel (about the price it was in the worst of the great
> depression).
> Yes, I know that the ratio is not perfectly valid but I find it
> interesting.
>
> Brent
>
>
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