A Chasing Sunsets Fund – A Better Way to Plan Nice-to-Haves in Financial
Independence.
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One of the spending needs that many of you would consider as part of the
income needs for your financial independence (FI) or FIRE, is to have
enough mon...
10 months ago
$1.5M is in today dollar value
ReplyDeleteHi Temperament,
ReplyDeleteShort answer is $305,400/-
Long answer:
From Singstat, 1987 CPI is 58.69 while 2017 CPI is 99.5, giving an inflation CAGR of 1.72% per annum over 31 years. (Must be the cheap stuff from China & globalization)
2018 full CPI not known yet, but from the figures as of Oct 2018, so far is much lower than the average. CPI went from 99.5 to 99.9 ..... 0.4% increase.
S'pore CPI 1987-2017
Notice the steep rise from 2008-2013 ... people were not happy with govt then! :)
If you can super-impose the median wage increase onto the CPI graph, you can easily predict the incumbent's performance during elections Hohoho!