Here is the paragraph which got me.. Due to steep inflation since 1965 (when the average ticket cost $1.01), “The Sound of Music,” with a once-gigantic $198 million domestic gross, doesn’t crack this top 100. But when Box Office Mojo adjuststhe top 100 for ticket inflation, the musical classic comes in at No. 3 with $1.22 billion, followed by “E.T.” ($1.22 billion), “Titanic” ($1.16) billion, 1956’s “The Ten Commandments” ($1.12 billion), 1975’s “Jaws” ($1.1 billion), 1965’s “Dr. Zhivago” ($1 billion), 1973’s “The Exorcist” ($952 million) and 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” ($938 million). here are the first few sentences.. Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will pass “Avatar” as the top-grossing film ever in North America on Wednesday as Tuesday’s $8 million take puts it just $2 million short of the previous record of $760.5 million. But that hugely impressive number doesn’t take soaring ticket prices — seeing it in 3-D IMAX in Manhattan can set you back as much as $21.59 — into account. If you factor in inflation, “The Force Awakens” currently ranks in 21st place among all films in terms of actual tickets sold, just behind “Raiders of the Lost Ark” but far, far behind the two chart-toppers: “Gone With the Wind” ($1.7 billion) and the original “Star Wars” ($1.5 billion). (Various factors make it impossible to adjust international grosses, an increasingly important source of Hollywood revenue, for inflation.) here is the link... http://nypost.com/2016/01/06/the-force-awakens-is-actually-in-21st-place/
a comparison betweeen the new Star Wars and Avatar is hardly fair when you factor in the price of WTI. It was much higher back when Avatar came out. A lot cheaper to drive to the drive-in today. They still have drive-ins...right?
good... you have acknowledge the massive inflation... 1. what does inflation do the savings of people and familes who who don't pick the correct asset classes. 2. what does inflation due to peoples tax brackets? Do you acknowledge that inflation can and does destroy savings? Now lets take a deeper cut... if the united states borrowed all the money to pay for its spending... (except for a few recent years) why did we get such massive inflation? Was it through expansion of the money supply by trillions of dollars consider dollars went out all over the world? Who got to spend those trillion? What and who did and do they buy with that money?
Yes I have, wage inflation. We have hope with a Trump presidency, though, since he thinks wages are too high.
INFLATION! When I was a kid, I used to go to the Saturday matinee with 3 of my cousins... cost $1. That wasn't $1 each, but $1 total! And included a bag of popcorn for each of us.
and ricter is an apologist for the politicians and the cronies who own them. Ricter claims he is for the workers... yet he supports policies such as big taxation and inflation.. policies which destroy the savings of workers. I don't get today's socialists and commies. Why not promote useful policies which are good for the people and cease supporting the crony destruction of the working class?
right... I don't get why people are such sheep and don't realize this is a systematic looting of their families labor and businesses.... generation after generation. Its one thing to be dumb and quite... its quite another to be smart and support this. There is absolutely not reason to support the massive inflation we have experienced since the end of Bretton woods and the gold standard. Its not like the govt spent this increased money supply. It did not help americans of any type other than the guys who ran the digital printing press of Federal Reserve notes and credited money to their companies accounts.
the only way to get around the facts I am pointing out is to attempt to complicate them. the facts are simple. We have had massive inflation and a massive increase in the money supply... as we supplied dollars around the world. That massive increase in money supply and consequent devaluation of the dollar did not directly benefit anyone but the cronies and the democrats and republicans they purchased. Indirectly those who invested in asset classes which performed well under inflation could have done well... but not for long as income and anti generational wealth taxes will have wiped out what their investments and productivity did, unless they reached elite stages. No matter how you slice it, taxes inflation and the extraction of good jobs by te cronies and the laws which encouraged it... have destroyed the middle class... the left so claims to love.