Re: Fw: H-COST: Currency/price converter website?

This is at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis site:

http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html


On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:46:44 -0500, "Franchesca Havas" <ches(at)io.com>
, late of Pablo Fanques Fair wrote:

>Has anyone heard of this? How would one create such a page? What software
>would we use? Anyone made one? What software did you use?
>
>Sincerely,
>F. Havas
>Dallas, Texas
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Margo Anderson <margo(at)directcon.net>
>To: h-costume(at)indra.com <h-costume(at)indra.com>
>Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 12:24 PM
>Subject: H-COST: Currency/price converter website?
>
>
>:
>:-Poster: Margo Anderson <margo(at)directcon.net>
>:
>:Somewhere, I read about a website that has a function similar to a currency
>:converter.  Apparently you give it a price, type in a date, and it adjusts
>:for inflation and gives you the figure that the price would be in that
>:year's money.  Has anyone run across this site?
>:
>:Failing that, I've been told that a very rough rule of thumb for converting
>:19th century prices to today's money is to multiply by 33.  Any opinions?
>:
>:Margo
>:
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