So this story has 210 points, 80 comments and has been up for 13 hours and yet no-one has mentioned that the data is completely wrong. There's no accounting fo

So this story has 210 points, 80 comments and has been up for 13 hours and yet no-one has mentioned that the data is completely wrong. There's no accounting for inflation. Comparing a nominal 1999 dollar amount with a nominal 2014 dollar amount is like comparing a euro amount with a dollar amount without doing an conversion (which would actually still be more accurate).