Do things only seem cheaper in the 1950's, (in the United States,) because of inflation or were things like food and houses actually cheaper for average people even with less inflation? -
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One hundred years of price change: the Consumer Price Index and the American inflation experience : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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