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KPN

(17,512 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:26 AM Jul 2025

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Inflation was 12.5% in 1980. Economic contraction was already underway -- decline in gross national income and jobs.

The rate in 1979 was 13.3%. The first 6 months of 1980 were considered a recession.

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