The Class Of 2001
October, 2000
You Guys graduating from college soon have to be special. After all, they named the movie 2001 after you, and that was more than a decade before you were born. Most of you came into this crazy world around 1980, so to show you that the only things you can count on in life are change and flux, here are some statistics from that fateful year:In 1980 the U.S. experienced an annual inflation rate of 13.5 percent. Mortgage rates exceeded 20 percent and unemployment stood at 7.1 percent. A BMW 320 cos...
