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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 19969542, member: 27832&quot;]Those figures are both in <i>nominal</i> dollars, not <i>inflation-adjusted</i> dollars. If you&#039;re just trying to preserve nominal dollars, stuff paper money under your mattress.</p><p><br /></p><p>To match the buying power of $100 in 1983, you&#039;d need $297.99 in today&#039;s dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s totally misleading to look at a simple graph of the price of silver over tens of years. You <i>have</i> to consider inflation.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/1470/historical-silver-prices-100-year-chart" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.macrotrends.net/1470/historical-silver-prices-100-year-chart" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrotrends.net/1470/historical-silver-prices-100-year-chart</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Without inflation adjustment:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1539775[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>With inflation adjustment:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1539776[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing so sophisticated -- I Googled &quot;inflation calculator 1983&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1983" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1983" rel="nofollow">https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1983</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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