[lanewinfield]

hi, i made this. thank you for posting.

unfortunately due to the government shutdown, the BLS inflation data for September 2025 is delayed from October 15 (as it normally is) until October 24[1], so please check back then to see if he is >109 Cent.

assuming future stability, the site will automatically update on the 15th of every month.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/bls/092025-cpi-reschedule-notice.htm

[khazhoux]

This is a powerful visual representation. I would suggest that the impact could be even stronger if you provided side-by-side images of 50 Cent, where the second is scaled up proportionately.

[brk]

If you scroll across it displays multiples of the image representative to the inflation at the time point.

[dsamarin]

Quick self nerd snipe:

I think the area should be scaled proportionally, so the new width and height should be multiplied by sqrt(cents/50)

[lanewinfield]

that’s a good idea. in future versions, i might need to consider multiple renderings as different economists likely prefer alternative visualizations of 50’s monetary adjustments

[kemiller]

You should extend it into the past. Hapenny hit hard.

[femiagbabiaka]

You're doing a public service, thank you.

[karmakaze]

It would be fun to have currency conversions too.

[earlyriser]

Conversions to Nickelback, Poundz, Los Pesos, DJ Euro and Yen.

[rubyfan]

to Stanley Nickels and Schrute Bucks

[b112]

It would be even funnier with exceedingly long fractionals.

EG, 109.453452 cent or 109 113363/250000 or some such.

[petermcneeley]

I think the big mac index is far more accurate gauge of inflation than the B(L)S numbers published by the government.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/apr/how-big-m...

[zeroonetwothree]

Unless you primarily spend your money on Big Macs (in which case you have bigger problems) I don’t see how that’s true.

[huhtenberg]

By the same metric, but using Arizona Iced Tea, there was no inflation for ages.

[tempestn]

Love it. I think there's an off-by-one calculating the images at the top. (100-cent gives a single pixel slice of the third image.)

[extrano84]

I think they are rounding a float for the number display and not rounding for the image as you can see different sized image segments for the months where the number remains at 100 cents. You could still be correct, I have no way of verifying.

[mckeed]

Curious how you set it up. Do you have to manually update it when inflation data comes out, or is it automatic?

[lanewinfield]

it's on a scheduled workflow with github actions that rebuilds the site on the 15th, 30 minutes after the data is released.

cron: '0 13 15 * *'

[triwats]

This is brilliant

[Rochus]

Where is the inflated music?

[jerf]

1. Go to, let's say, a video like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm8PH4xAss [1] Start it playing.

2. Copy and paste this into your browser location bar: javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 50/prompt("Inflation-adjusted 50 Cent value:"))

3. Enter the inflation-adjusted 50 Cent value, which as we are talking about this today, is 109.

Et voila, inflation-adjusted 50 Cent music, and anyone finding this later can adjust it to their current inflation-adjusted value.

I believe there are limits on how slow the browsers will playback video. This code is not guaranteed to work past any possible hyperinflations or massive deflations that may occur in the future.

If you're curious how that may sound with a more careful job done then the browsers will do with stretching, consider Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSJ9Bkhb1Q4&list=PLMEcbs3sHQ... Some of you may well legitimately love this. Obviously the frequency profile of doing this to a 50 Cent piece will be quite different but it at least gives the idea.

[1]: It is sheer coincidence that this video ID ends in "Ass". This is "50 Cent - In Da Club (Official Music Video)" for those wondering.