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Gold in 2003 (so far)
January 2nd: $342.20 December 19th: $408.75 Gain 19.4% January 2nd: £212.88 December 19th: £231.46 Gain 8.7% January 2nd: ¤326.53 December 19th: ¤329.40 Gain 0.9% Question: How much did gold increase in value in 2003? |
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My 11/18/03 Predictions...
Dec. 14 418.00 Dec. 21 434.00 Dec. 28 435.50 Looks like I was off a bit... LOL... Sam F. http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/uncle_sam/ "Jorg Lueke" wrote... January 2nd: $342.20 December 19th: $408.75 Gain 19.4% January 2nd: £212.88 December 19th: £231.46 Gain 8.7% January 2nd: ¤326.53 December 19th: ¤329.40 Gain 0.9% Question: How much did gold increase in value in 2003? |
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Subject: Gold in 2003 (so far)
From: Jorg Lueke Date: 12/20/2003 7:42 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: January 2nd: $342.20 December 19th: $408.75 Gain 19.4% January 2nd: £212.88 December 19th: £231.46 Gain 8.7% January 2nd: ¤326.53 December 19th: ¤329.40 Gain 0.9% Question: How much did gold increase in value in 2003? The value of gold never changes. It is pretty, always in demand, and makes darned good jewelry, electrical contacts and teeth. It is an excellent store of value. .. The values of the currencies used to buy gold, on the other hand, rise and fall like corks on the ocean, thereby making the price of gold as expressed in these currencies fall and rise correspondingly. At the present time, the price of the dollar is low, as expressed in gold. As long as we have a government of fools who insist on spending more money than they have the nerve to raise in taxes, this will continue. .. Of course, the price of a (post-1861) dollar bill will never fall to zero, as has happened with the older currency issues of most non-U.S. governments. About a year ago somebody came into our coin shop with some obsolete Swiss 1,000 Franc notes, which an ancestor had put away for a rainy day. They were worthless as currency, and had little collector value. .. I am pleased that the EU is no longer issuing currency notes that can expire like a carton of cottage cheese whenever a government whims it. Perhaps if it can resist the temptation to do so every now and then for another 140 years, the citizens of the rest of the world will put as much faith in the Euro as they now do in the dollar. .. Tom DeLorey |
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On 21 Dec 2003 05:58:46 GMT, TomDeLorey wrote:
Subject: Gold in 2003 (so far) From: Jorg Lueke Date: 12/20/2003 7:42 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: January 2nd: $342.20 December 19th: $408.75 Gain 19.4% January 2nd: £212.88 December 19th: £231.46 Gain 8.7% January 2nd: ¤326.53 December 19th: ¤329.40 Gain 0.9% Question: How much did gold increase in value in 2003? The value of gold never changes. It is pretty, always in demand, and makes darned good jewelry, electrical contacts and teeth. It is an excellent store of value. . The values of the currencies used to buy gold, on the other hand, rise and fall like corks on the ocean, thereby making the price of gold as expressed in these currencies fall and rise correspondingly. At the present time, the price of the dollar is low, as expressed in gold. As long as we have a government of fools who insist on spending more money than they have the nerve to raise in taxes, this will continue. . Of course, the price of a (post-1861) dollar bill will never fall to zero, as has happened with the older currency issues of most non-U.S. governments. About a year ago somebody came into our coin shop with some obsolete Swiss 1,000 Franc notes, which an ancestor had put away for a rainy day. They were worthless as currency, and had little collector value. . I am pleased that the EU is no longer issuing currency notes that can expire like a carton of cottage cheese whenever a government whims it. Perhaps if it can resist the temptation to do so every now and then for another 140 years, the citizens of the rest of the world will put as much faith in the Euro as they now do in the dollar. . Tom DeLorey Thanks Tom, I find it very interesting that the Numismatic press, and certain commercials, keep talking about how the value of gold has risen. When really it seems to make more sense to say the value of the dollar has fallen. It's also kind of weird that if I could have bought a nice new car in the US of France at the beginning of the year for 60 ounces of gold (converted to local currency), the car would now cost 50 ounces of gold in the U.S. while it probably still sits at 60 ounces in France. |
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what was the currency symbol on the third set? it didn't translate in
Outlook Express "Jorg Lueke" wrote in message news January 2nd: $342.20 December 19th: $408.75 Gain 19.4% January 2nd: £212.88 December 19th: £231.46 Gain 8.7% January 2nd: ¤326.53 December 19th: ¤329.40 Gain 0.9% Question: How much did gold increase in value in 2003? |
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Nooker wrote:
what was the currency symbol on the third set? Euro. it didn't translate in Outlook Express Maybe that (OE) is the problem here g. Jorg used the ISO 8859-15 charset for his message, and the ¤ shows up just fine. Christian |
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:14:27 +0100, Christian Feldhaus
wrote: Nooker wrote: what was the currency symbol on the third set? Euro. it didn't translate in Outlook Express Maybe that (OE) is the problem here g. Jorg used the ISO 8859-15 charset for his message, and the ¤ shows up just fine. Christian Yes! I did note that his Outlook translated the Euro symbol back to the old universal currency symbol which it replaced. There's probably an update of OE that will let one see Euros though. |
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yes, I'm sure there is an update for my OE, but I'm using an old computer
running Win 98SE and I don't want to bother updating right now. the new computer arrives any day, & it will be Win XP with all the bells & whistles (DVD burner, etc)! yea, can't wait ! "Dude, you're getting a Dell !" Mark "Jorg Lueke" wrote in message news On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:14:27 +0100, Christian Feldhaus wrote: Nooker wrote: what was the currency symbol on the third set? Euro. it didn't translate in Outlook Express Maybe that (OE) is the problem here g. Jorg used the ISO 8859-15 charset for his message, and the ¤ shows up just fine. Christian Yes! I did note that his Outlook translated the Euro symbol back to the old universal currency symbol which it replaced. There's probably an update of OE that will let one see Euros though. |
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Nooker wrote:
yes, I'm sure there is an update for my OE, but I'm using an old computer running Win 98SE and I don't want to bother updating right now. No problemo ... If this is "only" a font related issue, here is some more info from Microsoft, along with fonts that you could use: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm Might as well be a problem with the "charset" header used, though. The euro symbol is part of ISO-8859-15 (Latin-9) and of Unicode (UTF-8). The latter is sometimes frowned upon in newsgroups; and if you use US-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), that symbol is not supported. Then again ... if you don't need the euro symbol that often anyway, don't worry :-) Christian |
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