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> McDonalds burgers were 15¢.

Okay, it was the McDonald's hamburger that seems to have been $0.15 in 1963. That is $1.53 in CPI-inflated 2024 dollars.

The cost today is $2.19. That's about a 0.6% difference in the compounding inflation rate over 61 years.

parent jlmorton 2 years ago

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