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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 773279, member: 17753&quot;]<b>correct me if I&#039;m wrong...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The value of the dollar is inversely related to the price of metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>I.e.,&nbsp; the price of metals goes up when the &quot;dollar goes down.&quot;&nbsp; After all, if a dollar is worth less today than yesterday, then, clearly, it takes more dollars to buy the same amount of gold today than yesterday.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m unclear about is how closely is the dollar&#039;s value correlated with what the economy is going.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone know if the dollar has been going down lately?</p><p><br /></p><p>I presume it has.&nbsp; Is it related to the fact that we&#039;re in a depression?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I do know that we have the worse economic recession since, perhaps, the Great Depression -- and that metals are&nbsp; at an all time high.</p><p><br /></p><p>OTOH, however, I haven&#039;t seen anyone talk about that inverse relationship lately.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the dollar goes back up, metals will take a hit.&nbsp; Will the dollar necessarily go back up when the economy recovers?&nbsp; I have no idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t listen to me -- listen to an expert.&nbsp; But if you <i><b>do </b></i>get the ear of any expert, ask him/her about this inverse relationship.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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