Regarding inflation, you can use the the CPI (http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ http://www.bls.gov/cpi/), specifically the CPI-U (all urban consumers), not seasonally adj

Regarding inflation, you can use the the CPI (http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ http://www.bls.gov/cpi/), specifically the CPI-U (all urban consumers), not seasonally adjusted. For example, $1 in 2015 was $0.10 in 1950. The BLS actually has a little calculator you can play with (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl). It's fairly straightforward, but if you want a script to start you off, here's a little something I wrote in perl for my own fun: https://github.com/Amorymeltzer/sandbox/blob/master/inflation.pl https://github.com/Amorymeltzer/sandbox/blob/master/inflatio...