Financialization of the Economy, Business, and Household Inequality in the United States

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1.1Percentage annual change in US wages, prices, and long-term interest rates, 1800–2019

1.2Percentage annual change in prices, M2, the monetary base, and corporate bond interest rates, 1870–2020

1.3New York Stock Exchange monthly and annual percentage change in total capital, 1815–2020

1.4Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index, 1990–2020

1.5New York Stock Exchange volatility, 1966–2020

1.6Annual percentage change in US real gross domestic product, 1930–2020

1.7Quarterly real GDP change, 1947–2019

1.8Chicago Federal Reserve Bank economic activity index, 1967–2019

1.9US labor productivity: Real per-person business sector output, percentage annual change, 1948–2020

1.10Primary, secondary, and higher education, 1940–2019

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