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Old 01-05-2010, 08:55 PM  
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Originally Posted by SAC View Post
Titanic
1997 dollars - $1,850,000,000

inflation adjusted dollars 2009 - $2,490,000,000

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

avatar has a long way to go, $1.4b
They call that stat the C-P-Lie. hehe. Don't get me started on how they cook the books with that one. Also, useful to note is that they only calculate inflation for things that don't really inflate. Real estate / rent, food, education, energy, insurance, cars, etc is what the CPI should be primarily focused on since that is where people spend their money.

For more accurate inflation try. http://www.shadowstats.com/
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