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LESSON 1 · Invest Without Fear

PAUSE TO THINK

What was the worst U.S. inflation year in the last 50 years?

1980, around 13.5%.

Prices climbed so fast that a savings account paying 8% was still losing real value every month. It took years of hard decisions at the Federal Reserve to finally tame it by the mid-1980s.

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