Long-term US price inflation, since 1800

US price inflation has proceeded in three distinct phases: no price inflation at all (113 years), to persistent inflation (58 years), to skyrocketing price inflation (the last 53 years). (See Chapter 18 in the book The Debt Standard: How our money system plagues our world for more details. Data from the US Federal Reserve.)

US Consumer Price Index from 1800 to 2024
US Consumer Price Index from 1800 to 2024