Jefferson's Library

[asyouknow_bob]

About a decade ago, we realized that our books were more numerous than the library that Jefferson had sold to replace the Library of Congress. That is, our late-90s collection - put together by an ordinary couple, in our modest suburban house - was numerically as big as the LC used to be early in the 19th century. (That's some sort of index of

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[manfred_macx]

Remember that starting in 1929 we had a rather strong deflationary event start. Inflation kicked up in the late 60's as IIRC we were overdriving the economy on Vietnam War/Great Society/Space Race, then it really shot up over the 70's with the oil shocks (stagflation).