Art Unwin wrote:
When we went off the gold standard gold shot up over night but I do
not believe the price of gold has shot shot up a lot since then.

Here's a chart of gold prices since 1975.

http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_ch...rly_graphs.plx

Seems to me it "shot up" from '76-'79 and '05-'08. I rolled
my IRA over into gold because of the Y2K scare. :-)
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