Knives and Inflation; From 2000 to today: Is it 100%?

[VorpelSword]

I have written here about buying knives for our son in the Marines back in the early Y2K decade. I won't re-hash that here but one aspect of that buying was that I bought a whole bunch of knives and spent at least $1,000 doing it . . .which seemed over the top.
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I was just noodling around on e-Bay this AM and came to realize that the two big deal knives from premium makers (together) today would by themselves exceed that one Grand price point. In 2002, a Chris Reeves "Green Beret goes for around $500 and the Randll #16 "Special Fighter" somewhat more on e-Bay (my lazy research source today).

He has been out for many years n ow, but if I were outfitting him today, I'd have to sell off something . . . undoug=btably something that, " . . .you don't really need !" as my wife might put it.

So, both the Randall and the CRK could be deemed to have inflated by 100% or more.

 

[Blues]

One dollar from 2000 is roughly the equivalent of $1.90 now. (Over the past 26 years, inflation has averaged 2.5% annually)

So it takes roughly $2 now for what would have cost $1 back in 2000

 

[kobold]

there is a site using the original metrics from the '80's and according to that the inflation is more than what the official numbers are. https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

 

[SharpBits]

The dollar has been greatly devalued.

 

[knarfeng]

I have written here about buying knives for our son in the Marines back in the early Y2K decade. I won't re-hash that here but one aspect of that buying was that I bought a whole bunch of knives and spent at least $1,000 doing it . . .which seemed over the top.
.

I was just noodling around on e-Bay this AM and came to realize that the two big deal knives from premium makers (together) today would by themselves exceed that one Grand price point. In 2002, a Chris Reeves "Green Beret goes for around $500 and the Randll #16 "Special Fighter" somewhat more on e-Bay (my lazy research source today).

He has been out for many years n ow, but if I were outfitting him today, I'd have to sell off something . . . undoug=btably something that, " . . .you don't really need !" as my wife might put it.

So, both the Randall and the CRK could be deemed to have inflated by 100% or more.

So, the knives have kept up with inflation.

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