English: Pink and yellow box-overlays indicate the status of central banking during the indicated timespan: 1775 continental congress, 1791or92or95 first bank of the united states, 1811 or 1816 second bank of the united states, 1836or37or41 pet banking era, 1861or62or63or65 national banking era, 1913 federal reserve notes backed by gold, 1933 federal reserve notes backed by silver (plus backed by gold internationally -- but this chart is about domestic inflation), 1968or71 federal reserve notes backed only by the promise of future taxdollars. Width of box-overlays indicates duration of each era in years, height of box-overlays indicates volatility-range of inflation and deflation during those years -- or in the post-1933 and especially the post-1971 eras, inflation only. Basic chart-data by Lalala666 is the percent annual inflation in purple (deflation in green) of the buying-power of the effective money supply, versus the actual demand for money, sourced from http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/infcf17742007.pdf and 'How Much is that in Real Money?: A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States' [0-944026-33-8] by McCusker (for pre-1774 data especially -- for post-1913 data the CPI figures were used).