gold
Gold Price History: Key Events of the Last 50 Years
For most of the 20th century, gold's price wasn't really a "price" at all in the way we think of one today. It was a fixed legal rate, set by governments rather than markets. That changed in 1971, and what followed is one of the more instructive case studies in how geopolitics, inflation, and investor psychology interact to move an asset's price over time.
