RIMROCK MACRO
1,044 INDICATORS·15 CATEGORIES·PUBLIC DATA · FRED · U.S. TREASURY·UPDATED 2026-06-18
← Historical Crashes

1973–74 Oil Shock & Stagflation

S&P −46%

OPEC embargo quadrupled oil while price controls came off — the textbook stagflation: double-digit inflation and a deep recession at the same time.

For a credit desk. Inflation uncertainty blew Baa spreads wider and pushed the funds rate to 13%; real yields swung violently negative then positive. · 1973–1974

Click any chart to open it full screen as a two-up — look up any indicator on each side, drag to pan the timeline, scroll to zoom (years → months), and ★ save what you want.

Inflation (CPI YoY)
Loading…
Fed funds rate
Loading…
Unemployment
Loading…
Industrial production (YoY)
Loading…
Baa–Treasury spread
Loading…
S&P 500
Loading…

Compare any indicator

Search the full library and drop any series into this crash's then-vs-now frame — same anchor, same window, same scale logic.

Browse all indicators 1,044

Every series we track, in this crash’s then-vs-now frame — scroll to load more, filter by category, or search. Click any chart to open the full-screen studio.