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Nice summary. Tradition dies hard, especially in these isles - my old nan maintained that decimalisation was the greatest con ever perpetrated on the British pe
by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Nice summary. Tradition dies hard, especially in these isles - my old nan maintained that decimalisation was the greatest con ever perpetrated on the British people!
- bell-cot 4y agoDouble-checking on the inflation data for that era - https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/1994/inflation-over-300-years.pdf https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-... - I'd say that your old nan was quite right. (But maybe not quite in a literal, "terms as defined by an economic professor", sense.)
- denton-scratch 4y agoIt was a con. Everyone rounded their prices upward. Some of the price-rises weren't simply rounding, either.