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year	m2	m2_change	m2_new
1900	6.6	0	0	
1901	7.48	13.33	0	
1902	8.17	9.22	0	
1903	8.68	6.24	0	
1904	9.24	6.45	0	
1905	10.24	10.82	0	
1906	11.08	8.2	0	
1907	11.6	4.69	0	
1908	11.44	-1.38	0	
1909	12.68	10.84	0	
1910	13.34	5.21	0	
1911	14.12	5.85	0	
1912	15.13	7.15	0	
1913	15.78	4.3	0	
1914	16.89	7.03	0	
1915	17.59	4.14	0	
1916	20.85	18.53	0	
1917	24.37	16.88	0	
1918	26.73	9.68	0	
1919	31.01	16.01	0	
1920	34.8	12.22	0	
1921	32.85	-5.6	0	
1922	33.72	2.65	0	
1923	36.6	8.54	0	
1924	38.58	5.41	0	
1925	42.05	8.99	0	
1926	43.68	3.88	0	
1927	44.78	2.52	0	
1928	46.42	3.66	0	
1929	46.6	0.39	0	
1930	45.73	-1.87	0	
1931	42.69	-6.65	0	
1932	36.05	-15.55	0	
1933	32.22	-10.62	0	
1934	34.36	6.64	0	
1935	39.07	13.71	0	
1936	43.48	11.29	0	
1937	45.68	5.06	0	
1938	45.51	-0.37	0	
1939	49.27	8.26	0	
1940	55.2	12.04	0	
1941	62.51	13.24	0	
1942	71.16	13.84	0	
1943	89.91	26.35	0	
1944	106.82	18.81	0	
1945	126.63	18.55	0	
1946	138.73	9.56	0	
1947	146	5.24	0	
1948	148.11	1.45	0	
1949	147.46	-0.44	0	
1950	150.81	2.27	0	
1951	156.45	3.74	0	
1952	164.92	5.41	0	
1953	171.19	3.8	0	
1954	177.16	3.49	0	
1955	183.69	3.69	0	
1956	186.87	1.73	0	
1957	191.82	2.65	0	
1958	201.12	4.85	0	
1959	210.67	4.75	0	
1960	221.24	5.02	0	
1961	233.92	5.73	0	
1962	249.15	6.51	0	
1963	264.73	6.25	0	
1964	285.89	7.99	0	
1965	308.02	7.74	0	
1966	331.78	7.71	0	
1967	361.6	8.99	532.115	
1968	385.17	6.52	566.8	
1969	401.29	3.72	587.9	
1970	0	6.55	626.4	
1971	0	13.36	710.1	
1972	0	12.96	802.1	
1973	0	6.63	855.3	
1974	0	5.45	901.9	
1975	0	12.65	1016	
1976	0	13.36	1151.7	
1977	0	10.26	1269.9	
1978	0	7.54	1365.6	
1979	0	7.89	1473.3	
1980	0	0	0	
1981	0	0	0	
1982	0	0	0	
1983	0	0	0	
1984	0	0	0	
1985	0	0	0	
1986	0	0	0	
1987	0	0	0	
1988	0	0	0	
1989	0	0	0	
1990	0	0	0	
1991	0	0	0	
1992	0	0	0	
1993	0	0	0	
1994	0	0	0	
1995	0	0	0	
1996	0	0	0	
1997	0	0	0	
1998	0	0	0	
1999	0	0	0	
2000	0	0	0	
2001	0	0	0	
2002	0	0	0	
2003	0	0	0	
2004	0	0	0	
2005	0	0	0	
2006	0	0	0	
2007	0	0	0	
2008	0	0	0	
2009	0	0	0	
2010	0	0	0

Year	M2 Money Supply	Annual Change in M2	M2 Money Supply (New Series)
1900	6.6	0	0
1901	7.48	13.33	0
1902	8.17	9.22	0
1903	8.68	6.24	0
1904	9.24	6.45	0
1905	10.24	10.82	0
1906	11.08	8.2	0
1907	11.6	4.69	0
1908	11.44	-1.38	0
1909	12.68	10.84	0
1910	13.34	5.21	0
1911	14.12	5.85	0
1912	15.13	7.15	0
1913	15.78	4.3	0
1914	16.89	7.03	0
1915	17.59	4.14	0
1916	20.85	18.53	0
1917	24.37	16.88	0
1918	26.73	9.68	0
1919	31.01	16.01	0
1920	34.8	12.22	0
1921	32.85	-5.6	0
1922	33.72	2.65	0
1923	36.6	8.54	0
1924	38.58	5.41	0
1925	42.05	8.99	0
1926	43.68	3.88	0
1927	44.78	2.52	0
1928	46.42	3.66	0
1929	46.6	0.39	0
1930	45.73	-1.87	0
1931	42.69	-6.65	0
1932	36.05	-15.55	0
1933	32.22	-10.62	0
1934	34.36	6.64	0
1935	39.07	13.71	0
1936	43.48	11.29	0
1937	45.68	5.06	0
1938	45.51	-0.37	0
1939	49.27	8.26	0
1940	55.2	12.04	0
1941	62.51	13.24	0
1942	71.16	13.84	0
1943	89.91	26.35	0
1944	106.82	18.81	0
1945	126.63	18.55	0
1946	138.73	9.56	0
1947	146	5.24	0
1948	148.11	1.45	0
1949	147.46	-0.44	0
1950	150.81	2.27	0
1951	156.45	3.74	0
1952	164.92	5.41	0
1953	171.19	3.8	0
1954	177.16	3.49	0
1955	183.69	3.69	0
1956	186.87	1.73	0
1957	191.82	2.65	0
1958	201.12	4.85	0
1959	210.67	4.75	0
1960	221.24	5.02	0
1961	233.92	5.73	0
1962	249.15	6.51	0
1963	264.73	6.25	0
1964	285.89	7.99	0
1965	308.02	7.74	0
1966	331.78	7.71	0
1967	361.6	8.99	532.115
1968	385.17	6.52	566.8
1969	401.29	3.72	587.9
1970	0	6.55	626.4
1971	0	13.36	710.1
1972	0	12.96	802.1
1973	0	6.63	855.3
1974	0	5.45	901.9
1975	0	12.65	1016
1976	0	13.36	1151.7
1977	0	10.26	1269.9
1978	0	7.54	1365.6
1979	0	7.89	1473.3
1980	0	0	0
1981	0	0	0
1982	0	0	0
1983	0	0	0
1984	0	0	0
1985	0	0	0
1986	0	0	0
1987	0	0	0
1988	0	0	0
1989	0	0	0
1990	0	0	0
1991	0	0	0
1992	0	0	0
1993	0	0	0
1994	0	0	0
1995	0	0	0
1996	0	0	0
1997	0	0	0
1998	0	0	0
1999	0	0	0
2000	0	0	0
2001	0	0	0
2002	0	0	0
2003	0	0	0
2004	0	0	0
2005	0	0	0
2006	0	0	0
2007	0	0	0
2008	0	0	0
2009	0	0	0
2010	0	0	0

Consumer Price Index:
The US Census Bureau maintains a time series, E-135: Consumer Price Indexes (all items) from 1800 to 1970.
Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Part 1
E. Prices and Price Indexes: Series E-135; p.211 (pdf)

Why Stuck on Stupid?

Seventy years ago the leaders of both US political parties turned away from the policies that had created an economic powerhouse we call the Roaring Twenties. For ten long years Americans suffered through wrenching economic dislocations: deflation, inflation, a four-year economic contraction, endless unemployment, mindless political experiments, and ruthless attacks on businessmen for political gain as their leaders stayed Stuck on Stupid.

Today, after a twenty-five year economic boom, Americans are once more faced with a political elite that wants to monkey with success. It wants to raise tax rates. It wants to restrict trade. It wants to increase government power.

It‘s time to look back and remind ourselves how it came to be, starting in 1929, that America got itself Stuck on Stupid. Otherwise it could happen again.

1929-1939: “A Decade that will live — in stupidity.”

Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State

Mutual Aid

In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society

Democratic Capitalism

Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Government Expenditure

The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America