Reducing energy prices is anti-inflationary. Deporting illegals is anti-inflationary. Decreasing government workers is anti-inflationary. Removing government regulations is anti-inflationary. Reducing unemployment is anti-inflationary. Making people healthier is anti-inflationary. Reducing the business tax rate is anti-inflationary. Increasing the supply is anti-inflationary. Decreasing the deficit is anti-inflationary. Decreasing the debt is anti-inflationary.
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You've hit the nail on the head, Maidenlace.
As late as 1933, a $20 bill was THE SAME AS a $20 one-ounce GOLD COIN.
You could slap a $20 bill down on the counter at a bank and exchange it for a $20 one-ounce GOLD coin. Today, that coin will cost you close to $2700.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=American+%2420+gold+coin
Today's price for an ounce of gold is around $2650 (see https://www.kitco.com/ for the current price of gold, silver, and other precious metals).
2650 / 20 =132.5, so it takes about $132.5 of today's dollars to equal the buying power of ONE dollar from 1933. Put another way, today's hundred-dollar bill is worth LESS THAN a single dollar from 1933.
That's specific to the dollar price of gold, but considering that a one-pound loaf of really good bread (without GMO wheat or today's herbicides, pesticides, and other crap) went for UNDER A DIME back in the early 1900s, it probably isn't too far off the mark for many other things.
https://www.foodtimeline.org/MLR1923.pdf