Note: Normally I opposed to just lifting material straight from another blog, but since this is mostly just an advertisement for billshrink.com, I don't feel too bad about it. As far as I can tell, billshrink.com is a personal finance reorganization site.
Much has changed since the legendary summer of 1969, both socially and economically. To analyze the variance in purchasing power between then and now, we have compared a number of popular consumer products by price that are still relevant today. The figures from 1969 have been adjusted for inflation to give us a better idea of what the actual cost of each item would be in today’s economy. Given the bleak financial outlook which faces us this coming summer, it does us all a bit of good to look back with nostalgia on a time of blissful optimism and free love.
