[Theoria]

U.S. Productivity and Compensation, 1948-2011 (1948=100)

Mexican Productivity and Compensation, 1994-2011

[Paladin2]

Thnx for those plots.

[Drago]

Nice charts, notice in the “U.S. Productivity and Compensation, 1948-2011” chart that compensation begin to diverge from productivity beginning about 1971, the same year Nixon took us completely off the gold standard.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2011/08/14/august-15-1971-a-date-which-has-lived-in-infamy/#75facad2135a

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/15/forty-years-ago-today-nixon-took-us-off-gold-standard.html