One chart a week about gold, silver and what the dollar buys — drawn from the same sourced data that runs the tools, with the numbers underneath and the inconvenient start date named before anyone else names it. No forecasts. Just the record, charted.
No. 2 · September 28, 2026
An ounce of gold bought 20.3 ounces of silver in 1970 and 89.6 in 1991. Where it sits now, and why a high ratio is not a forecast.
Try it live: the gold-to-silver ratio calculator · Read: the Hunt brothers and the 1980 silver squeeze
No. 1 · September 27, 2026
Since 1971, prices went up 8.3×. Gold went up 97×. And why starting in 1980 tells a very different story.
Try it live: what a dollar from your birth year buys now · Read: the 1971 Nixon shock and why gold rose fifteenfold in the 1970s