Is everyone pretending to understand inflation (or just me)?

991.47 - 1017.066 Ronald Reagan (Ad Narrator)

It's morning again in America. Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history. With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, more than at any time in the past four years. This is what passed for ASMR in the 1980s. This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married.