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Is the split linked to something happening in 1973? Did something change?
EDIT: Wasn't this roughly the period of stagflation?
Nixonomics babyy
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
The dollar was fully decoupled from the gold standard in 1971. I think this is just a slightly delayed reaction to that.
Based on some research I was doing last night, the consumer price index also spiked at around that same exact time, and exponentially took off from there. Years prior it was far more stable. It looked a lot like the graph on this post, but with far less growth before 1973.
I would love to know more about that particular time as well, if anyone has better insight