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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AuSgPtHoarder, post: 292806, member: 9817&quot;]Exactly right leadfoot; the rest of the world is not complaining or celebrating &#039;skyrocketing&#039; prices for oil, corn, gold, silver, etc., because their moneys (??) have been strengthening vs. the dollar.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are other influences as well, for all the different commodities, currencies, etc., and the rest of the world is being affected to a degree, but the dollar has been steadily and rapidly declining since 2002, but the past few months...I don&#039;t remember seeing anything like this. &gt;&gt; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, I&#039;m writing this after I captured the data below.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t expecting the skew I see there, but it makes sense.&nbsp; Silver and Gold, etc., have definitely outpaced the inverse of the dollar reaction, but we need to remember; most people have more dollars than they have &quot;dollars worth of&quot; PMs.&nbsp; If you have 1/6th as much silver value as you have actual dollars over this time period, you&#039;d be at a break even.&nbsp; If you beat that ratio, then from the investment standpoint of holding dollars vs. holding PM&#039;s, you&#039;re doing well. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the past 5 years (approx):</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DJIA - up 50%</p><p>US Dollar - down 50%</p><p>Silver - up 300%</p><p>Gold - up 260%</p><p>Platinum - up 250%</p><p>Oil - up 400%</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Based on the change in the dollar, you can cut the increases in half.&nbsp; So gold is up 130%, silver 150%.&nbsp; Its almost as if, due to conditions, the &quot;P/E Ratio&quot;, if you think of it in stock market terms, of precious metals has gone up, because of their increased attractiveness in these market conditions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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