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To: yard_man who wrote (219886)	2/8/2003 8:21:38 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

anything is possible <g> 2003 is a worry if this is the top of the data for the year <g> the average is somewhat askew from the early years, but you can see series in the data with "coincidental" relationships to the dollar data and other issues similar to the current one in some interesting respects.. and in those series running 4-5 years, the price is certainly at the lower end. i don't by the way think, cpi numbers per se are going to say much, in that the gold price anticipates... but let me see. gotta find em. not to mention the grave doubts some have regarding how it is compiled, particularly in recent years... i.e. in the years beginning with this rise in the gold price.

To: yard_man who wrote (219886)	2/8/2003 8:32:37 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

here's one cpi series ending in 1993 daft.com compare say 1980, the historical high price for gold and some other years when gold traded well above todays prices and it is hard to make a case either way... secondly, you are currently at a stage where what is counted is in an environment where prices have either not been raised or cannot be (so called deflation) and yet we all know prices are rising and have been rising in very important ways in many other places.. food, insurances, homes, commodities, taxes both income and real estate/school and sales taxes... and some of these have been rising well before the bust. autos too through these years have risen dramatically.... but we know those were never purchased <g> and will now be dumped for no new sales at all.