This chart visualizes the price plateau of the 19th century, post Napoleon, until the completion of European and finally the US dollar devaluation in 1934.
The Long Wave peaks of 1812, 1866, and 1920 and the lows of 1844 and 1896 are quite clear. Even the 1980 US price peak shows up, but since the entire economic and political environment had changed to social democracy and easy credit in the 1930's, and remains such today, we only get decreases in the rates of inflation after price peaks instead of outright deflation as from Napoleon to Roosevelt.
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