Is there commodity inflation to spur gold and silver?
*Financial Times, by Javier Blas and Ed Crooks, September 12, 2007:
Oil price surges past $80 barrier
"Crude oil prices jumped to a record high of $80 a barrel on Wednesday,
as the market judged this week’s move by the Organisation of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase production as “too little,
too late”.
The jump in oil prices came as other commodities, such as wheat, hit
all-time highs at a time when industrialised countries’ central banks
are under pressure to hold down interest rates to insulate economic
growth from financial turmoil.
US West Texas Intermediate on Wednesday hit an intra-day record of $80
a barrel, above the previous high of $78.77 a barrel reached early last
month.
In real terms, adjusted for inflation, oil is at its highest price
since the early 1980s, but still well below its peak, equivalent to
$109 a barrel in today’s money, reached in late 1979."
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