WTF Happened in 1971?

I found a website with economic charts from 1971 until today. The site is simply called wtfhappenedin1971.com.

It’s a collection of interesting economic graphs showing the demise of the US (and the West) since that particular year.

In case you’re not familiar with the context, watch President Nixon ending the Gold Standard in August of 1971:

P.S. Wtfhappenedin1971 is by a bitcoin company called RiverFinancial. I do not know who they are, just found their graphs interesting enough to share.

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