Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down126file-text
arrow-up1120arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square74fedilinkfile-text
Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
minus-squarebooly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours ago$5 in April 1980 dollars is the inflation adjusted equivalent of $20 in December 2025: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5.00&year1=198004&year2=202512
$5 in April 1980 dollars is the inflation adjusted equivalent of $20 in December 2025:
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5.00&year1=198004&year2=202512