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We never mentioned inflation until Nixon took us off the gold standard in ‘72. Supposedly this was to save the dollar somehow.
Sequoyah101 wrote: “We never mentioned inflation until Nixon took us off the gold standard in ‘72.”
The CPI rose 23.07% from 1965 to 1970, with an annual percent increase of about 4.25%.
https://www.historycentral.com/sixty/Economics/Inflation.html