Quote: jagibelieve wrote: I could go on and on.  I suspect that many people on this board probably didn't live through the '70s during Jimmy Carter's presidency, but soon the then familiar "misery index" is going to be back.  Ammunition and lumber were the first couple of things to spike in price, but now gas, eggs, corn and pretty much any other commodity is seeing a huge climb in price.

I was a college student during the Carter Administration. We experienced High interest rates, High inflation, high unemployment , and widespread shortages all at the same time. Not to mention the failed hostage crisis rescue. Carter was a good man, but not a very good politician. Didn't delegate well, and suffered from paralysis by analysis. He was pretty much responsible single-handedly for the Reagan landslide in 1980.

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