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             English: Historical gold price in USD and inflation adjusted gold price in USD. The chart shows  Silver Thursday event as a peak in 1980 when Hunt brothers drove up the price of silver through speculations and after it they lost about a billion dollars. 
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           19 November 2009 | 
          
          
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            Realterm | 
          
         
         
        
         
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        www.bundesbank.de   for daily gold price London PM fix
        www.bls.gov   for Consumer Price Index (CPI-U)
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