Look Back Or Look Ahead
A dollar's worth of everyday goods in compared to —
type either year directly. "To" starts on the current year.
Defaults to this basis's own ~110-year average. Drag it to try your own assumption — this is a projection, not a forecast.
Flip it around — a dollar in 2026, in everyday-goods terms, only stretches as far as 8.5¢ did back in 1957.
what a 1957 dollar's buying power has done since, measured this way