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Article 2 (Sept 2021): The impact of inflation

September 29, 2021
Suppose it is 1950. You have $5 in your pocket and you have to buy groceries.
You've got plenty:
 
Gallon of milk: 83 cents
Dozen eggs: 60 cents
Loaf of bread: 30 cents
Chopped beef: 53 cents
Frozen green beans: 24 cents
Apples: 39 cents
Peanut butter: 29 cents
5 lbs. potatoes: 26 cents
3 lbs. hamburger: 89 cents
2 lbs. cabbage: 12 cents
1 lb. bacon: 35 cents
Total: $4.80
              
If you lived in any of 10 states, there wasn't a sales tax, so you could pocket that 20 cents.
              
Today, you aren't going to make much of a dinner with your $5. You can buy bread for $2 and eggs for $1.54. Five pounds of potatoes cost about $3.  Of course, today you should have more than $5 in your pocket, because wages eventually rise with inflation.

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