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LOL not even close!

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I suspect the results would be different if you accounted for home sizes which have expanded dramatically even since the 50’s.

No claim to accuracy on this article, but it does suggest those price changes roughly correspond with size changes.

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/05/25/the-size-of-a-home-the-year-you-were-born/

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Your point is valid but the analysis already takes that into account.

Case-Shiller Home Price (real estate) index adjusts the prices for size and quality of houses

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Thanks for that. I wasn’t aware Shiller is adjusting for size and quality. It’s funny what you miss. How did you work out that adjustment for house prices in the 20’s pre-Shiller?

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Longtermtrends did, they explain methodology there:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-estate-gold-ratio/

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Thanks I’ll check it out

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It os the Same in Most things you might want buy, car, good, land and so on

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Correct, that's the whole point:)

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Do you have a LinkedIn page? I’d love to share this article on Linkedin

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I do not have it yet. But it is a great idea to create one. Nevertheless, you can put the article's link out there on your feed anyway.

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Picking two random points in time doesn’t prove anything. Between 1982 and 2005 this kind of “value preservation” didn’t work out. And I doubt you’ll get the chance to use your 10kg of gold to buy a house a hundred years from now.

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