It's a lot of information to take in all at once.
In another way it's simple and easy to understand common sense. The buying power of the dollar is devalued as you put more and more money out in circulation. It takes more money to buy the same thing.
This Friday came around and when you got your paycheck you walked out of the grocery store with five bags of groceries.
A year from now you might only walk out with four bags of groceries. Your weekly paycheck won't buy as much.
Lol ... i must be old cause i can remember when you could get a bottle of Coca Cola out of the vending machine for a nickel.
Not quite sure what they're driving at with the dollar to gold ratio. They're listing gold as being 8,133.00$/oz. The current spot price is about 1.328.00 USD/oz. Something is a bit cattywampus there.
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