If you have watched any US or UK-produced media, you will have noticed how extremely common is to give a price adjusted for inflation almost every time they cite a historical price. Expressions like "it went for X, or Y in today's dollars" or "Y, adjusted for inflation", "or Y in 2025 dollars".

This is not something I noticed nearly as much in discussions about historical prices in continental Europe. Usually the price will be left in the nominal amount in the past, and you will be expected to contextualise it yourself. That's at least my observation.

Is it common in some of your contexts? If not, do you know why this might be? It's not like Europe didn't go through strong inflation periods. Could it be explained by many of the currencies being replaced by the Euro only a few decades ago, which created a new baseline?


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