your assuming when the price rises, you must also consider "if". few world currencies, including our is backed by any thing, but your hard work and taxes. no work no taxes. the dollar falls. the fed prints mor fiat dollars, it just falls again. you think you are getting a better price but you are really not. i.e. you are just gettin a larger number of smaller dollars
2 facts prove this to be true. 1. in the Roman empire 2000 years ago a one oz gold coin would buy you a complet set of very nice cloths. today 2011 one oz of gold will still buy you a fine set of cloths. 2. 100 years ago one dollar was worth 1/20th of an oz of gold today that same dollar is worth 1/1850th of an oz of gold world prices are vertually the same as they were 2000 yrs ago. it is the dollar worth less not the value of products going up. sooner or later it has to end. to say more would be to become political. which I will not. if you want more info PM me.
just my .02
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