<div dir="ltr"><div>Eugen Leitl, <span dir="ltr">aka Dr. Doom</span>, showed us a graph purporting to show that because of worldwide shortages copper prices are going through the roof:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copper_Price_History_USD.png">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copper_Price_History_USD.png</a><br>
<br></div>and it is a ugly graph no doubt about it, but if you look at a more recent copper price graph that shows the last 5 years in greater resolution things look much more cheerful:<br><br><a href="http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/copper/5-year/">http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/copper/5-year/</a> <br>
<div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> Silver is not any different<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Today silver costs $22.41 an ounce, 33 years ago in 1980 silver cost $49.45 an ounce, adjusted for inflation that would be about $138 per ounce. And I still haven't heard from Eugen if he's accepted my bet about a worldwide uranium shortage by 2020.<br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark<br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>