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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 600118, member: 4626&quot;]Don&#039;t make the mistake people often do when talking about the value of a currency to confuse measuring value by the relative purchasing power of the currency with foreign exchange rates, which are two entirely different animals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Measured the first way, the US dollar is actually fairly stable over the long run, if you make adjustments for inflation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold has been even more stable in its purchasing power... I remember someone pointing out once while $20 certaintly doesn&#039;t but now what it did 100 years ago... the amount of gold in a $20 gold piece has approximately the same buying power now as it did then.&nbsp; You&#039;re looking for a stable store of wealth, can&#039;t do much better than gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>You want to play the foreign exchange game, good luck.&nbsp; There&#039;s a lot to keep track of though when you try to forsee the trends... when you invest in a stock, you&#039;re trying to figure out how the company is performing and what they will do to the stock price.&nbsp; Foreign exchange investing is betting on economies of entire countries... good luck with that!&nbsp; However, you can make money doing it, if you know what you&#039;re doing (just ask George Soros, who made a significant portion of his wealth betting on the exchange rate between the US dollar and the British pound).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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