Inflation, interest rates, recessions and federal debt across a full century, plus by-president and by-decade tables. The long view is the antidote to headline myopia: double-digit 1970s inflation, the Volcker squeeze, the 2010s lowflation decade and the 2021-22 spike all on one axis.
Every era's "unprecedented" inflation had precedent. The tables slice the same data by presidential term and by decade — useful context, though monetary policy, wars and oil shocks respect no political calendar.
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