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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 19926187, member: 27832&quot;]And if you&#039;d put that same $1,000 into silver <b>40</b> years ago, it would be worth roughly $530 in today&#039;s dollars. (Silver went from $13.96 in Feb 1983 to $22.16 today; meanwhile, the dollar&#039;s value dropped by about 2/3.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;d put $1000 <i>per year</i> into silver over that period, dollar-cost averaging would have worked to your favor (no, I&#039;m not going to do all the math) -- but it would still have far, <i>far</i> underperformed any reasonable basket of equities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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