Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper currencies in a period of scary inflation. For some extreme pessimists, the phenomenon has raised the specter of the Weimar era in Germany in the early 1920s, when wheelbarrow loads of notes were needed to buy a loaf of bread. Essentially, the price of gold is an index of anxiety and a barometer of fears that, justified or not, seem too real to many...
Although this is sharply lower than Mexico's original demand of $4.95, the new agreement provides for future quarterly price hikes, according to an index that ties gas to the price of fuel...
...company than start a new one. Stock prices are also depressed relative to alternative investments in tangibles. In the twelve months to June, the value of silver rose 63%, gold 55%, old master paintings 22% and housing 14%; meanwhile, the Standard & Poor's composite stock index posted an undistinguished 5.3% gain...
...fairly strong bull market has been under way in the secondary stocks, including those of the smaller oil and gas companies, newer high-technology firms and takeover candidates. While the Dow has been languishing over the past four years - it was at 840 in September 1975 - the index of over-the-counter stocks has gone up 94% and the American Stock Exchange index has risen...
...with his helmet, and very well, too--oddly enough, the notoriously clumsy Ford was probably the best athlete of any President of the 20th century. But still a big lunk: that Nixon would make Ford President, after all his yammering about respect for the office, serves as a good index of how far gone that old carpetbagger really...