1980s: Commerce
After nearly a decade of slow business growth and declining consumer confidence, the American economy began a period of strong growth and growing confidence beginning in 1982. The chee...
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1980s: Prosperity and Conservatism
When Ronald Reagan (1911–) won the 1980 presidential election over the president then in office, Jimmy Carter (1924–), he inherited an economy in disar...
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1980s: Commerce