A pictorial guide to asset price history

This article by Dan Polansky intends to give an idea of historical development of prices of various asset classes by means of charts.

Gold














Relevant notes:
 * In 1971, U.S. president Nixon canceled the convertibility of USD to gold, thereby effectively abandoning the Bretton Woods system.

Disclaimer: while calculating the change rates is rather straightforward, one would ideally source the charts from or compare them to a publication showing these kinds of charts. There is an increased risk of error. The plotting code for the Macrotrends-data-based series of charts is available at File:GoldPriceUSD.svg.

Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org
 * , wikipedia.org
 * Commons: Category:Gold price charts (USD)
 * Gold Prices - 100 Year Historical Chart, macrotrends.net

Silver


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org
 * Commons: Category:Silver price charts

Bronze
No chart found in Wikimedia Commons. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.

Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Platinum


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Palladium


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Copper


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org
 * Copper Prices - 45 Year Historical Chart, macrotrends.net

Tin


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Oil


Further reading:
 * Commons: Category:Oil prices

Natural gas


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Nasdaq


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Dow Jones


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

S&P 500


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Stock of selected companies
Links:
 * Apple, Google Finance
 * Microsoft, Google Finance
 * Alphabet Inc Class A, Google Finance
 * Meta Platforms Inc, Google Finance
 * SAP SE, Google Finance
 * Oracle, Google Finance
 * IBM, Google Finance
 * Tesla, Google Finance
 * BMW, Google Finance

Real estate














Japan was selected as a vivid example of a real-estate bubble, and so was Ireland. Czechia was selected as of special interest to the author.

Further reading:
 * Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States (MSPUS), FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Average Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States (ASPUS), FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Residential Property Prices for United Kingdom, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Residential Property Prices for Japan, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Residential Property Prices for Germany, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Residential Property Prices for France, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Residential Property Prices for Spain, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Residential Property Prices for Czech Republic, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Residential Property Prices for Slovakia, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Housing price statistics - house price index - Statistics Explained, ec.europa.eu
 * , wikipedia.org
 * fs_2010-2011_kap_3_2.xls, cnb.cz

Bitcoin


Another chart of bitcoin price in USD:

Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org
 * Coinbase Bitcoin, fred.stlouisfed.org

USD


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Euro


Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

Inflation


See also.

Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org

USD volume in circulation






Further reading:
 * Currency in Circulation (CURRCIR), FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Federal Reserve Board - Currency in Circulation: Volume, federalreserve.gov

EUR volume in circulation






Further reading:
 * Euro currency in circulation 1997-2022 | Statista, statista.com

M1 money supply
M1 is one way to define the money supply. Its technical definition varies between countries.

















Selection criteria: euro and pound sterling are large currencies; Czech koruna is the currency of interest to the author. USD is plotted only up to 2020, before a change in definition made the data points after the change not directly comparable to data points before the change.

The plotting code is available in the file documentation on Commons.

Further reading:
 * , wikipedia.org
 * M1 for the U.S., FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Monetary Aggregates and Their Components: Narrow Money and Components: M1 and Components: M1 for United States, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Monetary Aggregates and Their Components: Narrow Money and Components: M1 and Components: M1 for Euro Area (19 Countries), FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Monetary Aggregates and Their Components: Narrow Money and Components: M1 and Components: M1 for United Kingdom, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Monetary Aggregates and Their Components: Narrow Money and Components: M1 and Components: M1 for Czech Republic, FRED | St. Louis Fed
 * Series M1, FRED | St. Louis Fed

Central bank interest rate


Above, we only plot the ECB marginal lending facility interest rate rather than also the other two ECB rates, but the other two rates are just offset by a fixed difference except for a few data points.



The CNB plot was included as of special interest to the article author.

Further reading:
 * Key ECB interest rates, ecb.europa.eu
 * What is the deposit facility rate, ecb.europa.eu
 * What is the main refinancing operations rate, ecb.europa.eu
 * What is the marginal lending facility rate, ecb.europa.eu
 * Jak se vyvíjela dvoutýdenní repo sazba ČNB?, cnb.cz (in Czech)