[ExI] Sources of info on historical commodity prices

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 00:05:57 UTC 2012


2012/4/6 Max More <max at maxmore.com>:
> Both the chart on Wikipedia (which is helpful) and this...
> http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/#data
>
> ... give data only up to around 2002. I'll have a closer look at the sources
> for the minerals.usgs report.
>
> Kelly, what I'm looking to establish is the change in real (not nominal)
> costs of those and other commodities from 1980 to the present (and for
> longer time frames).

It's still not entirely clear to me what "real" costs are in this
context. What is it that you would like to determine exactly?

-Kelly



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