Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008

The 1980 high adusted for "real" inflation is $6,255 an ounce

Kitco: The "Real" Gold Price

An example will be useful to illustrate this loss of purchasing power. Let’s assume that a recipient received $850 per month from the US government in January 1980. Using the US government’s CPI, that recipient is today receiving $2,310. However, if the US government had not made any changes to the way it calculates CPI, the recipient would today be receiving $6,255. This difference can be seen in the following chart, which presents the January $850 gold price adjusted for inflation using both CPI’s.

Posted by sold 2 rent 1 @ 03:17 PM (303 views) Add Comment

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1. happyrenterz said...

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2. harold said...

Silver shows even greater potential. Good article from Turk.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 08:35PM Report Comment
 

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