What were good & bad decades for the economy?


Based on the United States, specifically.

Some come up to my mind.

Good

  • 1990’s – Started rough but ended with the dot-com boom from 1995 to 2000. No more USSR meant that the US was the only superpower in the world.

  • 1950’s – Reserve currency status, and western Europe & Japan/ Korea were relying on US economically as they recovered from WW2. Also the stock market (the DOW) had officially re-reached 1929 levels.

  • 2010’s – Started rough like the 90s but I think the thing that sets the 2010s apart is the low inflation and rates we had that decade.
    We had 0% rates until like 2017. Inflation was averaging like 2.2%. Goods and services weren't inflating, neither were wages for what it's worth. Assets inflated like crazy in the 2010s though (homes/stocks) but it was pretty much growth by growth every year with no recession taking place in the decade at all.

  • 1980s were mediocre for stocks but incredible for wage growth. Recovery from the 1970s inflation and the fall of the USSR. It started out rough with high interest rates, but things stabilized during the decade.

Bad

  • 1970’s – Hyperinflation, and the Iran/Oil crisis. 1968-1985 was flat for the DOW.

  • 2000’s – Started the decade with 9/11, Enron, and the tech bubble bursting.
    Ended the decade with housing financial crisis.
    So many US manufacturing jobs were lost in this decade as well.

  • 1930s, for obvious reasons.


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