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Red Badger :" https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/07/23/the-economic-collapse-began-long-ago/#more-155290 "

Thank you for that post "hot link"
It explains the "Fourth Turning" in common sense terms
and explains national economics in common language that all can understand.
If you wondered why one's personal income of yesterday can't keep up with the economic demands of today ..
this article will explain to you why you are more broke now than yesteryear, even with an increase in income.
I never believed the FED.gov statistics about the inflation rate, and this article explains why it is so presented.

[Red Badger]

It was once a given that if your salary equaled your age then you were ding well, i.e. 60 years old = $60k/yr.

I have done that.

BUT, when you ‘adjust for inflation’, [ https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl ], I discover that I am making the equivalent of what I started at when I was first married at 24......................