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It’s been 43 years since the last time we ‘adjusted’ Social Security — And it’s running out of money, again.

March 31, 2026 6:48 pm

Social Security is the nation’s largest social insurance program, making payments to approximately 75 million Americans every month. Yet the program faces an imminent funding shortfall. Social Security’s trust fund for retirement benefits may run out in 2032, which could prompt an across-the-board benefit cut, according to projections from the Social Security Administration and Congressional …

Inflation adjusted starting salaries for new graduates fell to $54,500, lowest in six years

February 11, 2026 3:01 pm

A recent report shows: Inflation‑adjusted starting salaries for new U.S. college graduates have fallen to about $54,500 This is the lowest level in at least six years Real wages for graduates have been declining as the entry‑level job market cools Fewer graduates are landing jobs aligned with their degrees This comes directly from a labor‑market …

Adjusted for inflation – in 1950 the average person paid 5k in taxes. We now pay 30k

December 14, 2025 6:57 amDecember 13, 2025 8:47 pm

And there are people who think this is not enough. If only the government had more money to waste things would be better In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 BILLION was sent from the DOE, who gave it away with no oversight, to entities with no business plans …

Inflation adjusted gold prices have officially hit a new record high for the first time since the 1980s

September 11, 2025 9:04 pm

h/t RobertBartus

The $3,000 capital loss limit was set in 1978. Still frozen. Should be $15,430 today. Same with dependent care and Social Security brackets. Congress never adjusted.

June 27, 2025 12:37 pm

Some numbers never move. Not because they shouldn’t. Because Congress never bothered. The U.S. tax code is riddled with thresholds that were set decades ago and never indexed to inflation. They sit frozen in time while the cost of everything else climbs. The result is a quiet tax hike that hits middle-income Americans hardest. Start …

The Nasdaq 100, adjusted for M2, is now at its DotCom Bubble’s level.

January 17, 2025 10:27 pm

The Nasdaq 100, adjusted for M2, is now at its DotCom Bubble's level.https://t.co/BUtzqp0w9Y — Value Seeker (@ValueSeeker_) January 17, 2025

Retail sales were flat on a year-over-year, not seasonally adjusted basis.

October 17, 2024 9:17 am

Retail sales were flat on a year-over-year, not seasonally adjusted basis. But sure, keep telling yourself that they were strong. https://t.co/Bk32ws1gam pic.twitter.com/599ZHgCNRB — Neely (@NeelyTamminga) October 17, 2024

GDP per capita of G7 nations, adjusted for inflation and differences in cost of living between countries

September 13, 2024 11:08 am

Data source: Bolt and van Zanden – Maddison Project Database 2023 Note: This data is expressed in international-$ at 2011 prices. OurWorldInData.org/economic-growth | CC BY h/t ProfessorOfFinance

The recent surge in gold prices may seem impressive, but when adjusted for inflation, it still lags behind the peak in 1980 by 20%.

December 6, 2023 8:12 am

Gold may have hit an all-time high earlier this week but on an inflation adjusted basis it remains 20% below the 1980 peak pic.twitter.com/yKUScQ7laZ — Barchart (@Barchart) December 6, 2023 Poland bought 300t recently — Jan Nieuwenhuijs (@JanGold_) December 5, 2023 Moody's has cut China's credit outlook to negative. Moody's also recently lowered the United …

“We currently are earning less and spending more (adjusted for inflation) than at the worst point of the Great Depression”

August 31, 2023 10:35 am

People make less money, and prices are rising everywhere. Housing prices are going crazy. 😢 Are we in a quiet recession already? So many people earn less and everything costs more. Inflation has eroded earnings dramatically in real terms. Meanwhile, food, housing an all of the basics in life are sky high. pic.twitter.com/sfDnI6nJOy — Wall …

Inflation Adjusted, Men Are Making Less Money Than in 1979, Women Are Doing Better

July 31, 2023 10:26 am

via Mike Shedlock: BLS charts show interesting trends in real (inflation-adjusted) weekly earnings. Men are getting clobbered relative to women, but everyone is losing lately. Median real earnings from the BLS, inflation adjusted to the 1982-1984 CPI Index, chart by Mish. Median Weekly Real Earnings In the first quarter of 1979 men were making $408 …

NYC lost 5.3% of its population — nearly a half-million people — since COVID, with most heading South, per NYP…. State lost adjusted gross income worth $25 billion.

June 13, 2023 2:13 pm

The IRS data showed that in 2021, New York State lost adjusted gross income worth $25 billion. Read more: https://t.co/RLnJmCQTDQ — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) June 12, 2023 Lost of people from NY are heading to Florida

In April, consumer credit (AKA consumer DEBT) increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.7%. Revolving credit (credit cards) increased at an annual rate of 13.1% , while nonrevolving credit (student loans, personal loans, mortgages) increased at an annual rate of 3.2%.

June 7, 2023 10:12 pm

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/g19.pdf Remember, From 1st quarter 2022 to 1st quarter 2023, total household debt has increased $1,205 billion to $17.05 trillion (+7.57%)–Mortgage balances ($864 billion), HELOC ($22 billion), Student loans ($14 billion), Auto loans ($93 billion), Credit Card debt ($145 billion), Other ($67 billion): Total household debt has risen by $148 billion, or 0.9 percent, …

Despite Getting Whacked by Bank Turmoil, Layoff News, Credit Crunch, High Interest Rates, and Inflation, our Drunken Sailors Spent Even More, Even Adjusted for Inflation

June 1, 2023 7:41 pm

Guest Post from Wolf Richter at WolfStreet.com: Where does the money come from? They now out-earn inflation, they earn interest income, and they dipped into their assets whose prices ballooned over the years. Consumer spending, adjusted for inflation and for seasonal factors jumped by 0.5% in April from March, after two months of declines and …