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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1387319, member: 27832&quot;]Note the vertical scales in both of those graphs. That &quot;dramatic drop&quot; in the top graph represents about a 7.5% decrease from peak to trough, and corresponds to the last little wiggle in the rightmost two divisions of the bottom graph.</p><p><br /></p><p>The drop from 1989 to 1995 is the real thing; if you&#039;d bought at the peak, you would&#039;ve lost 2/3 of your investment, and that&#039;s not even counting the buy/sell spread. Doesn&#039;t that spike correspond to some sort of tax-law change that had lots of people buying coins for retirement accounts -- or, more accurately, didn&#039;t the drop correspond to a law change that stopped that practice?</p><p><br /></p><p>For extra credit, somebody should overlay that second graph with inflation data. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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