User:Jason Rees/Hurricane inflation
General thoughts
[edit]Recently I have noticed a influx of new editors wanting to inflate damage totals to their 2024 values. As an editor who has previously added inflation totals to articles, I thought I would write this essay on inflation and why its not a good idea to do so.
Background
[edit]Let's start by defining some terms here:
Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time.
Deflation is the rate.of
Foreign Values
[edit]Some of the damage totals that have been inflated are ones that would have originally been reported in a currency other than USD.