1. 1960 - 1995

2. Boom, Bust, and Boom Again

3. The Golden Years of the 1960s

4. US Economy Grows 2%-2.5% per Year on Average 6.1% in 1962 4.4% in 1963 5.8% in 1964 6.4% in 1965 6.5% in 1966

5. Almost an Entire Decade

7. Other Economic Factors in the 60s Unemployment Inflation

8. Dismal Decade of the 1970s Recession – December 1969 – November 1970 – November 1973 – March 1975 – January 1980 – June 1980 – July 1981 – November 1982

9. Unemployment through the Recessions

11. Inflation through the Recessions

12. Price Controls

14. Inflation after Price Control

16. News vs. Economists

17. Globalization

18. OPEC Oil Embargo

19. Results of Oil Embargo

21. Back to the Story

22. Imports

25. Worst Problem Productivity Slowdown

26. Productivity

30. 1960-1964—productivity growth about 3% per year 1965-1969—productivity growth slowed to about 2.4% per year 1970-1974—productivity growth slowed to about 2.0% per year This continued down until the mid-1980s and remained low until at least the 1990s

31. Productivity.

32. Why Did All of This Happen?

33. What went wrong in the 1970s Guns and Butter Story

34. Here is another one

35. What went wrong in the 1970s Guns and butter story Oil Prices did it story

36. What went wrong in the 1970s Guns and butter story Oil Prices did it story Stop-Go Monetary Policy Story

38. What went wrong in the 1970s

41. New Challenges for the 1980s

46. New Challenges for the 1980s and Beyond

47. Ronald Reagan

48. Budget Deficits

50. Debt / GDP

51. Worries in the mid-1980s

52. Globalization Continued to be a Fear