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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (21603)	11/10/2004 9:26:40 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

but KT, to put that in perspective, annual cash yield over the entire 20th century was something like 4.1% nominal, 0.8% real. cash held from 1900 thru 1999 was a 57-bagger. so people need to keep that in mind when talking about the wonders of zero-yield gold vs. cash. the difference today is that cash yields are negative in real terms, and low in nominal terms.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (21603)	11/10/2004 3:28:17 PM
From: zebra4o1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Knightly, I think I see what you mean regarding $100K+ households growing 6-times faster than the population in general. This could be just an artifact of the bell curve of income distribution marching higher with inflation. $100K is presumably somewhere on the upper tail of this bell curve, so as the curve shifts upward from inflation, the area of the curve greater than 100K could increase very rapidly. So - another housing industry obfuscation bites the dust! Too bad there is no easy way to include a sketch with one's SI posts.