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  • A Look At The Great Depression Through The Sears Catalog

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    Stay at home life in New York City is getting pretty old and dull after 8 weeks confined to an apartment. My wife Misty and I took a walk around the block this morning and stopped in at CVS to buy a few things. It felt like a big outing… At least the mail still brings some novelty, and yesterday I received fresh from an eBay seller an original 1938 Sears Roebuck catalog. It adds to the small collection of Great Depression ephemera we have discussed with you in prior Story Time Thursdays. Last week we compared the 1929 and 1932 editions of these time capsules of the American consumer experience to show you how much ... (full story)

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Not-KPMG
May 17, 2020 8:07am
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smikester
May 17, 2020 5:13pm
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Quoting Not-KPMG
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afevir
May 17, 2020 4:30am
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the idea that the prices in the year 2120 are 20 times today's prices, now it can be impossible with everything that includes
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Not-KPMG
May 17, 2020 8:05am
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True.

Hundred years ago bread was 5 cents, gas 5-6...

House 500-2000.

Imagine the future.

Yes. I hold bitcoin
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Trader#FC72
May 18, 2020 2:06pm
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Quoting Not-KPMG
True. Hundred years ago bread was 5 cents, gas 5-6... House 500-2000. Imagine the future. Yes. I hold bitcoin
And you made about 50c a day busting your butt working. My dad does this false equivalency all the time about how things used to be cheap, and I have had to remind him every time that folks making $20K a year 45 years ago were "doing pretty good".
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