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To: volare737

It appears you are correct about the 17% inflation rate (though the interest rate on some loans were in that ballpark (or higher) during that ‘Carter Malaise’ period), but the peak was higher than 11% for some years from some datasets.

Depending on the dataset used for the years 1973 - 1980 the inflation rate for each year is reported to be:

1973: 8.7% (or 8.8% per some datasets)
1974: 12.3% (or 9.39% per some datasets)
1975: 6.9% (or 11.80% per some datasets)
1976: 4.9% (or 6.72% per some datasets)
1977: 6.7% (or 5.22% per some datasets)
1978: 9.0% (or 6.84% per some datasets)
1979: 13.3% (or 9.28% per some datasets)
1980: 12.5% (or 13.91% per some datasets)


33 posted on 05/02/2026 8:44:19 PM PDT by curious7
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To: curious7

I know. I remember it too well. I knew it was extremely high, but it was not 17% though.


37 posted on 05/02/2026 8:47:30 PM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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