Chart Eighteen shows that the 1960s boom was superior to the 1990s boom not only in terms of industrial production and capacity expansion, but in terms of private sector wage growth. Moreover, the chart makes clear that real wages during the 1990s boom didn’t start rising significantly until 1996-97 – when the unsustainable technology bubble began inflating.

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