Over the next few years, it may fall to 500 an ounce or rise to 2,000 an ounce.

Such behavior has pushed the price of gold from 400 an ounce in 2005 to more than 1100 an ounce in December 2009.

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The price of an ounce of gold in 1980 was 400.

The price of gold recently reached a four month high and is approaching 1,700 an ounce.

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The cab stopped, and I pulled my body from it feeling each ounce of weight as I walked to the elevator.

The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies with particular force to monetary policy.

There is no doubt that gold s heady rise to the peak, from around 350 per ounce in July 2003, had investors drooling.

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NEW YORK Gold prices have been rising sharply, breaching the 1,000 barrier and in recent weeks rising towards 1,200 an ounce and above.

Even when gold jumped to 800 an ounce in 2008, it had failed to keep up with the rise in consumer prices since 1980.

And instead of charging a dollar fifty for the eight ounce bottle, the way that French's and Gulden's did, they decided to charge four dollars.

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In April, gold was selling for close to 1,300 per ounce and the price is still hovering below 1400, an almost 30 drop from the 2011 high.

Judging from the outcome of last month s meeting of the ECB s Governing Council, that ounce of prevention appears to be right around the corner for the euro zone economy.

And by the year 2000, when the US consumer price index was more than twice its level in 1980, the price of gold had fallen to about 300 an ounce.

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VENICE The run up in gold prices in recent years from 800 per ounce in early 2009 to above 1,900 in the fall of 2011 had all the features of a bubble.

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art and they made a very great burning for him.

I discovered this bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side that hosted a weekly poetry open mic, and my bewildered, but supportive, parents took me to soak in every ounce of spoken word that I could.

So, does the collapse in gold prices from a peak of 1,900 per ounce in August 2011 to under 1,250 at the beginning of July 2013 represent a vote of confidence in the global economy?

For example, Stephen Harmston s oft cited 1998 study points to anecdotal evidence that an ounce of gold bought 350 loaves of bread in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who died in 562 BC.

This statute gave the United States authority to sell metal to the British government from up to 350,000,000 silver dollars at 1 per ounce of silver plus the value of the copper in the coins, and handling and transportation fees.

I feel constrained to note here that even an ounce of failure on minor issues holds up the release of funds for major projects and programmes in third world countries, despite tons of reasons to go ahead with such projects.

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Since gold was 400 an ounce in both years, holding gold did nothing to offset the fall in the value of the dollar. A Japanese investor who held dollar equities or real estate could instead have offset the exchange rate loss by buying yen futures.

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