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Federal Government made loans accessible
Home Loans Catered to young families.
Virtually anyone could get a loan for a house regardless of their credit
Most goods were bought on credit without actually having ownership
Keeping up with the Jones was a common theme
Home loans mostly based on amortized income level
Excessive Capitalist credit spending helped create the recession of the 70s
Unemployment and Birth rates
Jan 1, 1979 5.90%
Jan 1, 1978 6.40%
Jan 1, 1977 7.50%
Jan 1, 1976 7.90%
Jan 1, 1975 8.10%
At the peak of unemployment in 1975, there were nearly three times as many unemployed Americans as there were in 1969
The birth rate sagged through the mid-1970s but stabilized before falling again after 2007 at the beginning of the Great Recession.
High Oil Prices
The average price of a barrel of oil reached a peak of $104.06 in 1979.
High levels of inflation were the result of an oil supply shock and the resulting increase in the price of gasoline, which drove the prices of everything else higher. This is known as cost push inflation.
Works Cited
Fox, James Alan. "'The Seventies': The Decade's Worst Killers."
CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.
Johnson, Bradley. "Ten Things You Can Learn From '70s Recession." Advertising Age News RSS. Web. 02 Mar. 2016.
Kitov, Ivan O. Inflation, Unemployment, Labor Force Change in
the USA. St. Louis: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, 2006. ProQuest. Web. 7 Mar. 2016.
LeoGrande, William M.. Our Own Backyard. Chapel Hill, US: The
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Livingston, Gretchen, and D'Vera Cohn. "U.S. Birth Rate Falls to a
Record Low; Decline Is Greatest Among Immigrants." Pew Research Centers Social Demographic Trends Project RSS. N.p., 29 Nov. 2012. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.
A situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high.
Monetary policy was too lose
-It is important to look at both the short-term and long-term effects of decisions..
-Even the weakest players can be the most innovative.
-A deep recession is a fine time to launch a business or a new product.
-Problems always create opportunities.
Vietnam War put strain on economy
Presidents of the 1970’s
• Richard Nixon (Watergate)
• Gerald Ford
• Jimmy Carter
Environmental Movements
• 1st Earth Day (1970)
• National Environmental Act
• Clean Air and Clean Water Act
Three Mile Island
Kent State Shooting
Pentagon Papers
Troops withdrawn in 1973
When people think of the U.S. economy in the 1970s the following comes to mind:
"In the '70's there was a certain kind of killer who had the skill to get away with murder long enough to assemble the body count where they would be classified as serial killers."
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