Sometimes, perhaps all too often; investors, traders, economists, and mainstream media anchors miss the forest and see only the trees (growing to the sky or crashing to the floor). To provide some context on the markets, we present the first of three posts of long-term chart series (and by long-term we mean more than a few decades of well-chosen trends) - stock, bond, gold, commodity, and US Dollar prices for the last 240 years...
American Markets Since Independence
Stock Prices
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Interest Rates
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Commodity Prices
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The Gold Price
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The Crude Oil Price
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The US Dollar
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H/t @Macro_Tourist for these increble charts
Of course, as we have noted in the past, Nothing lasts forever... (especially in light of China's earlier comments [12] )
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