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Some of the arrows are so randomly placed it reminds me of:

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kjh2110/the-10-most-biz...

Agreed that many of them are spurious (or the cause of other things that probably have no causal link to Bretton-Woods, such as no-fault divorce or the war on drugs) but there are still a lot that do seem to have a sharp discontinuity at 1971, particularly income vs productivity, and CPI, which is actually a more frightening chart in my opinion

They all seems to point to 1971, nothing random about that I understand that correlation != causation, but it also seems obvious that getting out of Bretton Woods has some major impact

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