What is a website that tells the value of money?

Question

Where to find information that tells the value of present verses old money?
I am trying to see how many of the present day's dollars it would take to equal one of 1875's. I don't want a simple answer; ie. $134.00 . I want the actual web site where I can look it up.

I'm not interest in any other information.

Answer 1

That stuff is called CPI (Consumer Price Index).

However, the US did not keep track until year 1913. Remember what you consume will be different from what is in the past. Thereby, the value of the money will be different. For example, in year 1875, there is no computer/monitor (the thing that you are looking at right now).

The table is right over here:

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt

The calculator is right here:
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

http://stats.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm

I know you are not interest in other stuff, just in case if you need to the the web address answers the following questions:

# What is the CPI?


# How is the CPI used?


# Whose buying habits does the CPI reflect?


# Is the CPI a cost-of-living index?