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> In dollar terms, he's just saying that the price of gold and the price of houses have inflated by the same amount.

They might be saying, it's just not really true:

http://www.goldchartsrus.com/chartstemp/free/USHomePricesAU0...

In gold houses are about 3x cheaper now than they were back in 1970. Yet in the mid 2000s they were even more expensive than in 1970. What can we make of that besides that the price of gold is very unstable and increase in money supply is not the primary reason of that? (e.g. compare 2000s and 2010s..)

There is nothing special about gold, it's just a highly speculated commodity with very volatile price and that's it. We might as well do the same experiment and use the prices of oil/wheat/etc. and it would make a lot more sense.



We also mine gold every year adding to the supply, thereby reducing the price of the current supply.




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