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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1117978, member: 3011&quot;]What your teacher told you is mostly wrong, or perhaps only right over a period of a century or so. Maybe it was more accurate back in the days when gold and silver were used as money. This is easily demonstrated.&nbsp; Gold has increased by a factor of more than 5, and silver by a factor of more than 6 in the past decade or so.&nbsp; But general price levels are not up by the same amount nor is the dollar down by 80%.&nbsp; In the 1980s, gold dropped by more than half and silver by more, but prices did not drop by half.&nbsp; They continued to rise throughout the entire period.&nbsp; So this is one of those often repeated statements that is very misleading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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