WW2   B-24  Pilot, about $300 month.,  Lived thru War, went to school on GI bill. Lived my life and never looked back.    Big change in pay from then to now.    Called inflation,  it slowly eats you alive.   Would take about $6000 a month to be what the $300 was in WW2.

Depends on the school, some schools will take anything that comes thru the door.  Others pick the top few.   She is talking about the top schools, if you are in a top school, I believe she is correct, it's the best chance you will ever have. Lets say the odds are better there than on the street. Chances are he is a w...more

Inflation has been here the last 100 years or longer. Little delay after they print more paper until inflation kicks in. Nothing we can do about it, with half the people on Uncle Sam's give me list. Everyone likes free hand outs.  I just don't know how to get them.   Banks get free money, other get free hand o...more

Is anyone ever going to see inflation for what it is, destroying savings of everyone that saves a little. This has been going on forever, all over the world.  I could see this in 1946, others must have seen the same thing.  Little people cannot work at a job and study money at the same time.  We have to make a day to d...more

Big noise over nothing,  I have been called ever name under the sun at one time or another. Don't make a mountain over nothing, plenty of real problems to take care of.

In the long run most retirement plans go the way of the Dodo bird.  Inflation or accounting destroys them.

Interesting study, but could use a serious study by other people.  Not too much information about details of the study.   Might be worth a professors time to check it out.

I keep pointing out that INFLATION has destroyed the savings of older people, people from the 1930 & 1940 put their savings in banks.   Today that money is worth a small fraction of what it was then, Uncle Sam took it from them with SLOW INFLATION.  On top of that he cut interest rates to nothing.     When Uncle Sam ...more

INFLATION:    People talk about all things as being the source of the problem.  Will someone take a look at long term inflation.  People work and save money, then inflation destroys the value of their savings, people cannot spend their life working and predict the future,  Now Uncle Sam will not look at the real proble...more