Great Post! Here is my favorite quote by Ron Paul, talking to the Federal Reserve Chairman: (as he holds up a real silver dollar coin), "Fifty years ago, a couple of these would buy you a tank of gasoline. Today, they still can."

I often go to this website to get a grasp of what inflation has done to our buying power since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913:
http://www.in2013dollars.com/1913-dollars-in-2016