“Yesterday at the American Economic Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting, Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff offered a paper titled Shifting Mandates: The Federal Reserve’s First Centennial. The paper included a cool chart of inflation since 1775. The authors argue that inflation didn’t take off until the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1933.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-inflation-since-1775-2013-1
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