Sentences with phrase «digit inflation during»

If you had elected this same $ 2000 per month payment in 1970, by 1980 the equivalent payment would only have been $ 1008, because of the double digit inflation during this period.

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By the time that decade ended, price - to - earnings ratios were in the single digits — but you had little or nothing to show for buying cheap equities during the prior 15 years; and that's before accounting for very high inflation.

And when the Federal Reserve Board once again greased the presses during the Vietnam War, inflation soon made a triumphant return to double - digit territory.

By 1978 the economy had started to show signs of recovery, with inflation falling to single digits, unemployment falling, and living standards starting to rise during the year.