Quote Originally Posted by MrPrena View Post
I personally think 1500 is high now, and 600 was high 26 years ago.
For 1500 now, someone can get a real nice firearms.

as for 1500 relative to popular inflation and/or price indicies:

just doing 3.5% straight 26yrs.
(without doing 3.5 for 20, and 4% for rest of 6yrs as original post due increase in hyper money supply, etc)
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http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator...calculator.htm
Why are you putting up a compound interest calculation in the context of inflationary pricing?