[standerman]

Not that recent. We left the gold standard in 1971. All that inflating monetary supply has to get stored somewhere. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

[moorhosj]

CAGR from 1961 (beginning of data) to 1971 (gold standard) - 4.2%

CAGR from 1971 to 2018 - 5.5%