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What is $10,000 from January 2022 worth today?
The conventional answer
Measured by US Consumer Prices
$11,915
observation August 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
What it bought then
GoldJanuary 2022 · World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)5.51 oz
Median new home sale priceQ1 2022 · U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development0.02 homes
Median US household income2022 · U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey ASEC0.1 years
Had it been invested instead
A different question: not what money could buy, but what it would have become.
Goldobservation August 2026 · World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)$24,290
U.S. Large-Cap Equity Composite (total return)observation June 2026 · Robert J. Shiller, Yale University$17,335