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It would be worth 500 dollars because the amount of money never changes over time. The purchasing power of a US dollar now is about 10-12% of its purchasing power in 1956. The easy way to determine this is with an inflation calculator that is based on changes in the CPI. I recommend http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

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11y ago

$50,000.00 in 1963 had the same buying power as $371,171.05 in 2012.

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14y ago

It would be around the sum of 30,000 dollars.

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12y ago

Yes it is. 500000 was a lot of money in the 1940s.

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13y ago

According to historical data, the inflation rate from 1950 to 2010 is approximated 805%. Therefore, 5000$ in 1950 is equivalent of around 45265 dollars.

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7y ago

$5.00 in 1945 had the same buying power as $66.44 in 2016.

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$50,000.00 in 1932 had the same buying power as $750,613.01 in 2011 and $810,017.12 in 2016.

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4324

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12y ago

$142,000.00

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