Silver Liberty is a website about silver as money. Shortcut link at http://www.silverlib.com/
Here’s an interesting exercise: calculate your salary history in ounces of silver (or gold).
data: (this should be cut-n-paste-able into a spreadsheet)
silver avg price $/oz. % change 1985 5.888 1986 5.384 -8.56% 1987 6.790 26.11% 1988 6.108 -10.04% 1989 5.543 -9.25% 1990 4.068 -26.61% 1991 3.909 -3.91% 1992 3.710 -5.09% 1993 4.968 33.91% 1994 4.769 -4.01% 1995 5.148 7.95% 1996 4.730 -8.12% 1997 5.945 25.69% 1998 5.549 -6.66% 1999 5.218 -5.97% 2000 4.951 -5.12% 2001 4.370 -11.74% 2002 4.599 5.24% 2003 4.876 6.02% 2004 6.671 36.81% 2005 7.316 9.67% 2006 11.545 57.80% 2007 13.383 15.92% 2008 14.989 12.00% 2009 14.673 -2.11%
As I write this, 2010 is over $20, bringing its average up to $18 which is a 22% rise over the 2009 average.