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Historic gold, silver, oil prices and their relationships

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Here is the result of some data collection on gold, silver and oil. Enjoy the charts :) .

Did you know that the gold price in 1793 is about 20 dollars/ounce (ounce = ~31 grams) and now it is about $800 (about 40X gain in 300 years). http://goldinfo.net/yearly.html

Here is the 600 year history of silver and gold-silver ratio. http://goldinfo.net/silver600.html

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Here is the relationship between gold and oil: http://goldprice.org/axstone/uploaded_images/Zeal_oil_gold-724067.gif

 

 

Here is a slightly different view of the chart: http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_00/images/hamilton063000c.gif

 

Here is the historic gasoline prices – inflation adjusted:

http://www.rawgreed.com/wp-content/gasoline.gif 

 

Related: http://econjournal.com/2009/03/03/detailed-gold-stats-and-analysis-for-q4-2009/


Written by econjournal

November 25, 2008 at 9:56 pm

Posted in Economic Data, Gold, Oil

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