Time Essay: How to Mobilize Against Inflation

Inflation may be becoming to the 1970s what depression was to the 1930s—not only an economic agony but a crisis that threatens the stability of society. Like the Great Depression four decades ago, today's Great Inflation has struck a blow at Americans' usual optimism about the future and replaced it with a deep worry—about whether families will be able to afford travel, comfortable housing, quality education for their children, even the foods they like best.

Millions of people justifiably feel that the economy is cheating them of the rewards of hard work and thrift....

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