The American economy was more stable and grew at a higher rate in the 100 years before persistent inflation policies were adopted than in the 100 years after.
It hasn't been 100 years since it left the gold standard, and in the hundred years prior, the country was industrializing and electrifying and experiencing exponential population growth, and picking all the other low-hanging fruit of easy economic gains.
But yes, if we focus on a single cherry-picked difference between two dramatically different time periods, we can spin any spherical-cow narrative we want.
