US Economic Progress (An Odd Graph I Happened to Have Made)

One of the oddest graphs I ever made was taking the US economic growth per capita deducting inflation and multiplying by the previous amount. It gave a chart of PC wealth of the average American over the whole of US history:

The economic damage wrought by the Civil War is obvious. The US was set back by 20 years by this event. It is equalled only by the Great Depression as a loss of wealth, and dwarfed by a long slide since the Oil Crisis of the 1970's which is totally beyond the scope of this blog.

Other minor economic crises are visible, the WW2 manufacturing boom is visible (and goes back down when the US enters the war). It's fairly interesting, but was simply kicking around my harddrive.