The car might be a bad example, I looked again and she says 1930, so it should be $20.67 if we want to use gold to do the inflation adjustment (producing an $81k inflation adjusted number, so cars are cheaper now which makes intuitive sense)

Using gold to deflate gives us a home price of 188tz = $367k in modern prices

And gas goes from 10c to $9.43, meaning modern oil & gas is more efficient which also makes sense

I think we have a housing bubble (again) but industrially produced goods are cheaper than in the 1930s (although a more fruitful comparison might be 1970s when "we" went full fiat).

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