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A pictorial guide to asset price history

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This article by Dan Polansky intends to give an idea of historical development of prices of various asset classes by means of charts.

Gold

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Relevant notes:

  • In 1971, U.S. president Nixon canceled the convertibility of USD to gold, thereby effectively abandoning the Bretton Woods system.

Disclaimer: while calculating the change rates is rather straightforward, one would ideally source the charts from or compare them to a publication showing these kinds of charts. There is an increased risk of error. The plotting code for the Macrotrends-data-based series of charts is available at File:GoldPriceUSD.svg.

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Silver

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Bronze

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No chart found in Wikimedia Commons. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.

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Platinum

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Palladium

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Copper

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Tin

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  • Tin, wikipedia.org

Oil

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Natural gas

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Nasdaq

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Dow Jones

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S&P 500

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Stock of selected companies

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Real estate

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Japan was selected as a vivid example of a real-estate bubble, and so was Ireland. Czechia was selected as of special interest to the author.

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Bitcoin

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Another chart of bitcoin price in USD:

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USD

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Euro

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Inflation

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See also #USD. Further reading:

USD volume in circulation

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EUR volume in circulation

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M1 money supply

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M1 is one way to define the money supply. Its technical definition varies between countries.

Selection criteria: euro and pound sterling are large currencies; Czech koruna is the currency of interest to the author. USD is plotted only up to 2020, before a change in definition made the data points after the change not directly comparable to data points before the change.

The plotting code is available in the file documentation on Commons.

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Central bank interest rate

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Above, we only plot the ECB marginal lending facility interest rate rather than also the other two ECB rates, but the other two rates are just offset by a fixed difference except for a few data points.

The CNB plot was included as of special interest to the article author.

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