"Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775: An Accurate Charting of the Past and Present Trend of Prices, National Income, Federal Debt, Business, Stock Averages and Commodities with a Special Study of Wages and Postwar Industry," Tension Envelope Corporation, 1943.
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In 1943, as American businesses tried to guess whether wartime relief from the Depression would translate into postwar prosperity, the Tension Envelope Corporation printed this chart for customers. The infographic folded into a pamphlet and could be displayed on the wall when opened. (The online archive of the Federal Reserve, FRASER, has digitized a PDF of the pamphlet, which you can view here.)
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I didn't bother with a link to the Fed PDF because it's too small to see shit. but further down the
Slate article you can click on the chart to go to a zoomable version. Lot of history and a better picture of exactly what the "good old days" actually was like. So much information you can cherry pick support for any argument imaginable.
