The real Fed Funds rate averaged 3%-plus, leaving gold to drop three-quarters of its real dollar value inside 20 years, as the real value of cash-on-deposit doubled.
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The real value of the dollar declined from its 1989 average from mid-2004 onward.
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The real value of the dollar was close to its 1989 average during that period.
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The average real value of the dollar increased by almost 42% from 1996 to 2001.
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Argentina is hanging tough, but Brazil's real has lost 30% of its dollar value this year.
The value of the Brazilian real against the dollar is also encouraging buyers.
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The first rule of city government should be an unwavering commitment to delivering real value to the public with every tax dollar.
The truth is the main drivers for the price of gold are the level and direction of real interest rates and the intrinsic value of the dollar.
In January 1999, as the Asian financial crisis spread to Latin America, the Brazilian government abandoned the dollar peg and the value of Brazil's real tumbled.
During the bad decades for the real economy, the 1970s and the 2000s, the value of the dollar in terms of gold fell (by 95% and 74%, respectively).
For two, as evidenced by gold's tripling in value vs. the dollar since 1998, investors in real terms are much worse off relative to where they were previously.
The US dollar has lost 2.2% of its value against the real in the last five trading sessions in Brazil.
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With a fiat dollar, it is impossible for A and B to know exactly what, in terms of real value, will be repaid.
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The problem is, in the hottest real estate markets, there seems to be an utter disconnect between property value and the buying power of a dollar.
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