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[–] PhunkyPlatypus 1 points (+1|-0)

That year the debt increased by $1,885,104,106,599.26 in 2009 dollars--or approximately $2,200,878,170,000.00 in constant August 2018 dollars (adjusted using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator).

What the fuck. I never realized how rampant inflation has become. In less than ten years something that had cost $18 is now $22. Meanwhile minimum wage hasn't even jumped $2 in most places during that same time period.

No wonder old people are living on squalor. And the millenials can't move out of their parents.