Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
This all happened before during the Carter years.....if you can find some type of chart on the ups and downs of the gold market that would be a great place to start. If I recall correctly, as soon as the housing market started taking off again the price of gold began to decline.

Have a good one!:s4:
No shit......thanks for that tid-bit. Looking at the housing market currently I guess its not going anywhere.....just curious.

Gotta find that chart.
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