Flashback facts neat site

[miki]

Here is my year, this is a pretty neat site with facts about the past.

http://www.1970sflashback.com/1977/ECONOMY.asp

It won't let me right-click to post the info here.

 

[3mnkids1]

I just left clicked and copied.

Economy
President: Richard M. Nixon
Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew

Population: 205,052,174
Life expectancy: 70.8 years

Dow-Jones
High: 842
Low: 669

Federal spending: $195.65 billion
Federal debt: $380.9 billion
Inflation: 6.5%
Consumer Price Index: 38.8
Unemployment: 3.5%

Prices
Cost of a new home: $26,600.00
Cost of a new car: $
Median Household Income: $8,734.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.62
Cost of a gallon of Milk: 1.15

The price of Gas and the median household income are the most shocking to me. Milk and eggs really havent gone up that much in almost 40 years.

 

[miki]

I like how this site goes into details about other facts as well. I am shocked by quite a bit of the prices. Milk is high here. You are lucky to find it for $4 a gallon in most stores.