Yeah I think the sites broader point is that a lot of indicators of the health of American society start trending definitively down with an inflection point aro

Yeah I think the sites broader point is that a lot of indicators of the health of American society start trending definitively down with an inflection point around 1970. The fact that the U.S. went off the gold standard on 1971 might be related to that but it's clearly not the sole causal factor.