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Yeah but then you might not get that spicy headline...

• VincentEvans 3y ago
  Wouldn’t adjusting historical values for inflation actually increase the magnitude of the numbers? Eg $100 in 1980s is $300 in 2023 (or whatever, not real numbers) - the number is larger, not smaller.
  • the_doctah 3y ago
    I think that's the point...
  • meheleventyone 3y ago
    Yeah so the number of billion dollar disasters would normalize as a consequence. Older years would get more and later years less as the currency loses value from the former to the latter. Inflation alone means you'd expect more billion dollar disasters over time. Someone below points out that inflation alone wouldn't explain the growth though and beyond that someone else notes its adjusted for CPI.