ploum@agreeable_landfall @bsdphk : no need to look all the list. All the graph refers to one single thing: unilateral end of Bretton-woods agreements by USA, which ended the dollar/gold standard.
At that point, the dollar became a virtual money which means it could be manipulated arbitrarily.
All the graphs on the website can be summarized: "banks had sudden access to an infinite-money glitch and used it for their best customers, aka the rich people"
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