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How can gold be used as an indicator of inflation?

Gold went up by almost 50% during the 2008 crisis and has dropped by 1/3 since it's peak. If we use the price of gold as an indicator of inflation that would mean we a huge inflationary spike followed by a severe deflationary period?



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