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Old 04-30-08, 08:54 PM   #8
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I wonder what that is in ww2 dollars... :hmm:
$1.00 in 1944 had about the same buying power as $12.13 in 2008
$3,000,000,000.00 today had about the same buying power as $247,299,602.05 in 1944. We need to pay for the war in 1944 dollars.
Darn. $250 billion in 1944 dollars would be a heckuva lot more expensive to buy now in 2008 than they would have been in 1944. If only we had thought of this back then...
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