On this page we'll paste instructive charts about various markets from various sources (including ourselves).

When we can't copy the chart, we'll provide a link. And we'll provide the source and/or links to charts we have pasted here. We'll also link to interesting articles associated with the charts.

There's no particular order to this. By all means copy these charts as you wish and we hope you find the page is useful.

The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph

This is an interesting chart (and associated article) from a research letter written by Michael Cembalest, an analyst at JP Morgan. It comes via 'The Atlantic' on-line magazine and the full article and (for once) sensible comments can be found by clicking here.

Be a bit wary of the statistical/economic analysis but this is an overall interesting broad-brush look at trends.

Gold

We like this chart as we do any long term series that puts things in perspective. Great article too.