Your Grandfather’s Stagflation Had One Thing Yours Won’t: A Head Start

Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com: Say you’re a family in 1973. Inflation is spiking, gas lines are stretching around the block, and your paycheck isn’t keeping up. It’s painful. But here’s the thing, you got there after fifteen years of real income growing at 3.5 a year. You had cushion. You had runway. []