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> The "stability in CPI" after the gold depeg in the 70s is also when wages stopped growing in real terms.

The depeging occurred in 1971:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

the CPI didn't start going crazy until the mid- to late-1970s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_shock

though there was a rising amount before any of those events:

* https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-inflation

You'll find that real wages in the US were fairly steady for most of the 1970s, falling mostly at the end, and really dropping during the 1980s:

* https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/are-wages-rising-or-flat/



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