Goto the link below. Feel free to play with any years and dollar amount you want to enter in this Federal Reserve calculator. But please put in the year 2000 to 2008 with $1.00.

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/

Results for this Homework on July 1st, 2008 are shown below.


What does this data mean to you?

It means you have lost 25% of the value of your dollar and savings since the year 2000! How does this make you feel? This is one reason why I am running for Congress.

Please send this Economy Homework to your Family & Friends!

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Carl Bunce for Congress
www.carlbunce.com

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