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To: Davy Crockett who wrote (111540)	7/8/2001 9:25:33 PM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 436258

>> Very impressive rebuttal... the best I have seen on S.I. (not including of course, your discussions with Heinz ) << ok, just so you understand, i had a problem with the way he ran his numbers. i am by no means an authority on all the past deflations so if someone wants to show me information that supports his timeframes for inflation/deflation by all means the topic does interest me. the most interesting thing is the results since the early seventies when gold was completely dropped as a backing for currencies and allowed to trade freely as a commodity. it has done well in an inflationary time period and done poorly in a disinflationary or deflationary time period since 1980, which is directly contrary to his gold performs better in a deflationary environment than an inflationary one. i am not an expert on all those time periods in the 1800's but it was a different world back then with many different factors. i would put more weight on recent history, which has shown gold to do well in the inflationary 70's and poorly in the disinflationary and then deflationary late 90's.