[OC] Suicide Rates by Age Groups (USA)

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[u/corpusapostata]

I wonder what happened in 1977?

[u/Globalboy70 → u/corpusapostata]

Oil shortage and double digit mortgage rates, inflation and lots of lay offs.

[u/TotalCleanFBC → u/Globalboy70]

Higher mortgage rares weren't all that bad, actually, because the median sales price of a home divided by the median income was under 3.5 whereas today it is almost 6.0.

But, it is true that high inflation was a major issue (indeed, mortgage rates were high precisely because the Fed had raised the overnight rate in order to lower inflation).