Withdrawal rates - theory vs practice

[John Galt]

Does anyone else think that William Shatner is starting to look like Albert Finney?

JG

 

[larry]

Shatner seems like he's really making a career comeback (from what I'm not sure) but he's really been present on my tv screen lately.

 

[Bob_Smith]

Does anyone else think that William Shatner is starting to look like Albert Finney?

JG

Yes!

 

[Tadpole]

The devolution of a finance thread. Love it. Just saw a series rerun. They all look fine to me. I think maybe it was one of those back in time to 20th century America episodes that aged them.

 

[mike_91361]

To be serious for a moment - Does anybody know how much wages have outpaced inflation historically?

 

[sgeeeee]

To be serious for a moment - Does anybody know how much wages have outpaced inflation historically?

Hi Mike,

I'm sure I've found a better source for this information on the social security administration site in the past, but I must be searching in the wrong places tonight. I did find some relevant data:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR99/triid.html#18769

Look at Table II.D1 columns 3 and 4.

 

[Hyperborea]

There's also this document - http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/saez/piketty-saezOUP04US.pdf

I haven't read the whole thing but look at the graph on page 60 for a nice summary of average real income versus CPI from 1913 to 1998.