Think of the 1950-1970 trend of Real GDP as a flat red line.
What was Real GDP doing, in the years since that time?
It was going downhill.
Relative to trend, we are lower now than we were at the bottom of the Great Depression.
"The commonwealth was not yet lost in Tiberius's days, but it was already doomed and Rome knew it. The fundamental trouble could not be cured. In Italy, labor could not support life..." - Vladimir Simkhovitch, "Rome's Fall Reconsidered"
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See also
https://newarthurianeconomics.blogspot.com/2013/10/real-gdp-and-exponential-trend.html
on my old blog, for Real GDP as a percent of trend.
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