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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: loantech who wrote (65221)	7/4/2006 6:36:03 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Fed Gold Oil sharelynx.com sharelynx.com vintagetextile.com We can see that fine collectibles, using the FPI as a proxy, produced large excess investment returns vs. inflation over the period 1974-1980, when real interest rates went negative. I have not updated the above chart after 2001 because the FPI appears to have decoupled from the overall collectible category. Furniture, though still an important collectible category, no longer seems the best proxy for collectibles as a whole. Over the last five years, fine vintage clothing has appreciated 8%-10%/year and fine art (paintings) about 7%/year.