Earning $100,000 a year today can feel a lot like earning $50,000 a year used to. Inflation was actually more dramatic from 1975 to 2000 than from 2000 to 2025

Earning $100,000 a year today can feel a lot like earning $50,000 a year used to. Inflation was actually more dramatic from 1975 to 2000 than from 2000 to 2025. The 1970s brought oil shocks, rapidly rising prices and wages, and inflation that eventually reached double digits, forcing the Federal R…