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Well, at least you beat inflation

$500 CAD in 2000 would have to be ~$705 now in order to beat inflation, according to Statistics Canada - so his $8 return was not great. https://www.in2013dollars.com/canada/inflation/2000?amount=5...

He said "after taking inflation into account" which means it must have been like $713 CAD in the account ;)

Enough profit to buy a shitty meal at Tim's.

Oops, I misread that! Thank you